justinian on 28 August 2009
| shams said: As usual, people have no idea. Their objective is *not* to hurt the opposition - rather its too maximise their profit. They always have a potential price-cut in the bag - but for now, they will rather take the "200,000 x $100" in extra revenue a week from hardware sales. Thats a measely $20m/week, or $1bn/yr. |
I agree with this. That is Microsoft's way, to hurt the competition and "hurt" themselves in the process simply because they think they can cope with the "hurt" better.
It is a weak stragedy but that's what you get when all your business models are geared towards market share - like Windows which is hugely succesful but this market ain't the OS market.
Even if Nintendo didn't have such a big share of the market their gaming profits will be a lot bigger than the other two due to high profits on HW - even if you ignore the DS.
I don't know how much it cost to produce a wii but I am sure it is a lot cheaper than the cheapest x360 (arcade).
