gurglesletch said:
Halfway into the year they had only sold 2.6 million xboxs. They could have easily ramped up production for the army while reducing costs due to increased production. |
So you're saying the smarter business decision would have been to spend even more money on producing loss selling consoles to sell to a client that would never give you software returns? I think we can all agree that Microsoft's strategy was to use their one year head start to establish a themselves a large userbase to combat the PS3 with. How exactly would selling a large portion of their consoles to the military instead of gamers have done that?
And by that point hadn't they just managed to reach demand? I remember there being a shortage issue during the first year.
I'm a mod, come to me if there's mod'n to do.
Chrizum is the best thing to happen to the internet, Period.
Serves me right for challenging his sales predictions!
Bet with dsisister44: Red Steel 2 will sell 1 million within it's first 365 days of sales.
