auxerre on 15 January 2009
| Magnific0 said: Microsoft failed. They cut the price and earned $50 less of everyone of those 1.4 million 360s they sold in December. That's about US$70 million they didn't make. Considering the differences in prices between 360's SKU's ($200, $300, $350) and PS3's SKUs ($400, $500) a simple calculation says Microsoft didn't make more than US$80 million over the PS3 earnings even when outselling it 2:1. Major LOL. Note: We're talking about both companies earned from 300-400 million dollars in hardwares sales alone. Sure, Microsoft wins a little extra market share and saves some face, and also sold some good extra software this holiday season, but can they keep it up now that the shopping season is over...and a PS3 price cut is soon to come, 360 days of joy will end just as abruptly as they started after that price cut! |
Completely ignoring how much the respective consoles cost to produce is the only way this entire post makes any sense whatsoever. Microsoft breaks even on their hardware even with the price cut. Sony loses money on every PS3 they sell. Multiplication with negative numbers is always a negative number.
For a measley fifty dollar price cut, Microsoft has succeeded beyond their wildest expectations. They're dominating Sony in the US, and most notably, now in Europe, too.
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