Kinect games sales .... not so hot.

[daroamer]

silicon said:

darklich13 said:

silicon said:

That's not good... since MS needs the software to sell.
Apparently they're losing on every Kinect.

Where did you hear that? From what I heard Kinect cost $56 for Microsoft.

http://www.gamespot.com/xbox360/action/adrenalinmisfits/news.html?sid=6283956

I read it in a Canadian Business article. Phil Torrone, the man behind getting the open source driver for kinect, said MS likely subsidizes each Kinect. With materials at $56 and after additional costs such as manufacteuring, shipping, margin etc, it may be a net loss for each one sold.

There's no way.  Otherwise they'd be losing an extra $50 on each bundled unit and I just don't see that.  Unless he was talking about the bundled unit in the first place but even then I doubt it.

Microsoft themselves said it was profitable from the outset.