Why not wait for the financial report later today?

But any way.

In the revenue front the XOne is miles ahead of the 360, which was sold at a loss and less income fron Digital sales and subscription.

Microsoft lost more than 1Bi with the 360 first year. The One needs only 10mi to profit 1Bi in hardware gross margins alone.

The X1 didnt have a price reduction. It had a new SKU introduced without a core component. The PS3 had a $100 price reduction. That being said there have been several special offers as well. So yes the X1 hasnt sold well. I do believe that it will start selling better in relationship to the PS4. It does amaze me with the lackluster lineup of games that have released in 2014, scheduled games for the remainder of 2014, and the far inferior extra features that the PS4 has continued to stay ahead as much as it has.

Now? Yes (but not a succes)

This summer? No... JUST NO

By Jenuary 2015? I don't know...

It's had both (here in the UK at least). We've had an official £30 cut, then another £50 when they removed Kinect, and another £20 last month. That's not including the free game stuff, of course.

If I remember correctly the PS3 did horribly for so long that Sony almost never made a profit and is still recouping losses?

I disagree but that's just my opinion - I assume if you take away the PS4 out of the equation the XB1 is selling at comparable levels against the other platforms like the WiiU (i havent checked the figures, im just assuming) - also it seems the XB360 has a lot of legs left in it so you could argue there are many 360 owners yet to upgrade to next gen yet.

It really depends on the context. With that logic, we could assume that the PS3 was a huge success because it outsold most consoles ever released. Going for sheer numbers, I would say that the PS3 and SNES were a success.

Going for the full context, the PS3 lost an almost full monopoly and allowed the competitors to get at the same level of sales. The SNES lost the full monopoly of the NES and allowed Sega to become a big player and made Nintendo fragile enough to be overcome by Sony. From this perspective, the X1 is losing the share that the 360 conquered and that isn't the same as going well. And even the brute numbers of 40-50M aren't that good for the current market size.

There are 3 answers to this question.

Definition one of "is the system selling well" - Is it profitable for MS?

Definition two of "is the system selling well" - Is it holding onto, or growing, marketshare over the competition and/or its own previous iteration?

Definition three of "is the system selling well" - Is it hitting the general expectations of those who look strictly at sales numbers - without any other indicators?

MS only cares about the top two.

Yes, you are right. Its not selling well at all. And that's with MS trying really hard with games and pricecuts. Oh well, its MS's fault for having such a terrible console reveal.

The funny thing about the great optimism for a possible comeback of XB1 behind such articles is the fact that THEY READ TOO MUCH INTO THE LAUNCH PERIOD. The very same sources that have been criticizing and were overly conservative when PS4 comfortably beat the already decent XB1 launch numbers, telling us to NOT READ TOO MUCH INTO IT, are now doing it to an IRRATIONAL EXTENT.

Without the launch numbers, XB1 is selling between the original XBox and X360, and approaching more to the XBox territory. Xbox numbers are usually understated (especially in US), forgetting the fact that it sold 24 million in just 3 years (8 million per year) while X360 sold over 80 million in 7 years (about 11-12 million). The increase is not as dramatic as it is made out to be. The main reason here was not the Xbox brand itself but the incompetence of Sony with the unrealisitc PS3 design and marketing. Now that PS4 has a much more successful strategy, things are back to normal with XB1, which can be expected to sell X360 levels (7-8 mil / year) adjusted for time, meaning around 45-60 million lifetime.

Things are easy, it's just the people are manking it difficult to read due to their own desires and wishful thinking.