Troll_Whisperer said:
That's what I'm asking. I guess your answer is no. But marketshare is a long term investment, I think they could've sold much more last and this holiday season and they could've hurt PS3 and WiiU more if they reduced the price. That in turn would've made the Xbox brand stronger, which is always good before launching a next gen console. It could bring more X720 sales and it may be more beneficial to do that in the long term.
MS make a lot of profits on HW as it is and I think it would've been smart to cut the price last year. They'll still profit on HW and get more Xboxes out there. |
No, it is certainly not long for consoles, the Wii's almost 50% marketshare back in the day did not do that much, sega's bigger marketshare in Europe with genesis did not help them at all, many EU gamers know what a Genesis/megadrive is but ask what a saturn is and they will answer 'A planet? A giant electronic German store?'. The most profitable region for MS (for every console sold) is probably going end up being Japan where they had an amazing attach rate were Xbox 360 owners were eating more MS points than they would rice/sushi or noodles (or cats)*
*yeah cats remember shoko Nakagawa...http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xgr9IqyR4Xw/S076S6jpx3I/AAAAAAAAAX0/SXYpj-ufOMc/s640/japanese-girl-eating-cat.jpg.
