Pemalite said:
Subscriptions to various services are making it more financially tenable to take those early losses though, especially when they can rely on subscriptions from prior console generations to make that division look financially better.
Xbox can... Seems Microsoft has opened it's checkbook up and is gearing up for next-gen, hence the purchasing of all the studios recently and holding things back for next-gen.
The 6th gen was probably regarded as a failure due to the massive financial hits they received.
Microsoft likely has the appropriate data to get a good gauge on how long a person is a paying subscriber to gamepass at this point, so having $1 gamepass entries is likely a short-term hit for a longer-term financial haul... Plus the more subscribers they get hooked into this gen, they will probably hope those customers translates over to next-gen. |
From the amount of sales and relevance I agree MS have been succesful with X360 and X1. They had the hiccups of RROD and used games that halved their sales, but considering how much unsucesful consoles sale them they certainly were succesful.
My point was just that we hear about MS infinite money buying their win every gen but haven't happened yet and I see no reason to believe it would buy their win on gen 9 as well. If they win it won't be because they have infinite money and decides to eat heavy cost to subside and buy studios that either are to expensive because they sell high or won't make the money back because they sell little.
duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"
http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363
Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"
http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994
Azzanation: "PS5 wouldn't sold out at launch without scalpers."