| cloud1161 said: dont people ever read the replies? im pretty sure it costs money to buy the raw materials for each kinect as well as hiring people to assemble the device as well as transporting the device to retailers. so even if they make 50 from the $150 for each device (not sure where you got $200 unless you mean canadian or something) that would balance them out from the 500 mill they spent on advertising yes, but not the actual cost to make the product. and what do you mean by making things easier from repeating time and time again. |
Last I heard everything was made in house(?), I counted the $50 for pure profit by the way, and again it is 10 million .
Your original statement has already been answered in this thread. Skype would operate as it's own division in Microsoft and won't only support MS products. Meaning everything they are supporting now would still be supported.
Edit: I found an unsourced vgc article that says that MS sells the stores Kinects for $138. So that's an even larger profit then when I originally assumed!
Sig thanks to Saber! :D
