Normchacho said:
That is an overall failure. The definition of failure is litteraly "omission of occurrence or performance; specifically : a failing to perform a duty or expected action" Especially when it fails to meet them by alot. It did not perform as expected, it failed to perform as expected. Yes, adding any features costs money, but it's money they wouldn't have had to spend if it were selling better. As I explained, the revenue brought in from BC is going to be miniscule because you don't have to buy 360 games to use it. Of course adding up the cost of 4K Blu Ray is relevant. If it's $10 more per unit, then for every 100,000 systems they sell that's $1 million that they would have made if it weren't included. You seem to be looking at this from the perspective of a consumer and sure, as a consumer, the Xbox One is great. But for Microsoft it's been a failure. |
If the X1 manages to be profitable, pushes their services, and encourages MS to continue with Xbox... I fail to see how that's an "overall failure." But I don't want to argue semantics, so lets move on.
You're assuming 360 BC only exist because X1 hasn't sold better, any proof of that? Nope. Again, it was a highly requested feature and they were able to deliver because of the modest 360 specs (compared to PS3's cell processor). X1 BC will help sell millions of units of 360 software and moves hardware. You're looking for a negative spin but its a popular feature.
Remember when people used to boast about hardware features? Now we people boast about consoles for lacking features to save money. In the grand scheme 4K Bluray was not an expensive feature to add and something MS can boast about. Which is worth something given how expensive UHD Bluray players are.
You want to make this a black and white situation. I can think of home console and a handheld console that objectlively failed recently. I'm saying there is a gray area, it failed to meet expectations but is still doing quite well. Espeically if this momentum continues.
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