Microsoft profits post implementation of cross buy

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Will Microsoft's profits increase or decrease after implementation of cross buy?
Decrease due to hardware sale decline	55	28.50%
Increase due to software sale increase	81	41.97%
Won't impact it much	39	20.21%
I still refuse to believe all this	1	0.52%
Sony/Nintendo fan here ju...	17	8.81%
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Dulfite on 06 July 2016

DirtyP2002 said:

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You don't think being able to get Halo without buying a multi hundred dollar console is going to cause a decline in sales? Halo pushes xbox, and so do their exclusives. If they have no exclusives, and I can get every xbox game on pc, why would I want an xbox?

Because you prefer consoles

And what exactly is a console? Something with a controller, has exclusive games, can connect to your tv? All of those things pc has (I use 360 controller on some steam games, for example). What exactly is a console and what makes it entitled to have it's own name (console) compared to pc's which can do the exact same stuff, only better?

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Turkish on 06 July 2016

Won't be much.

According to the devs 98% bought Rise of Tomb Raider on Steam lol.

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Aeolus451 on 06 July 2016

LudicrousSpeed said:

DirtyP2002 said:
Crazy that people still think hardware sales will decrease.

Especially when some of those same people claiming the Xbox is now dead, think the PS4 will be fine after Neo launches, even though the same logic applies. Superior hardware launching that gets all the same games. Yet where is the flood of "why buy a PS4?" threads? lol

To be fair, I don't think that either scorpio or neo will sell that well but I believe that the slims will have a substantial effect on the sales of the base xbox one and PS4.

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Dulfite on 06 July 2016

Turkish said:
Won't be much.

According to the devs 98% bought Rise of Tomb Raider on Steam lol.

The part that will hurt is the exclusives going to pc, not the multiplats that are already there.

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RJ_Sizzle on 06 July 2016

If they're not leaning so much on expensive hardware to produce, then they should have more profits to gain. Xbox has been announcing hardware losses on the regular these past quarters. Minimizing that would be effective.