Have Sony and Microsoft lost their minds?

[kain_kusanagi]

DaRev said:

kain_kusanagi said:
Yes, while games as killer awesome as Halo 4 prove that our current gen systems still have life left, at some point your have sold to everyone who is going to buy your console. We have nearly reached that saturation point. The only thing you can do as a manufacturer is discontinue the old, end support, and put out a new model and sell it to everyone who wants the latest games.

That's not crazy, it's good business.

OK, but isn't the point of the console maker to get to a point where you actually are not looking money on the hardware, which for MS and especially Sony that takes some years, to get to the point where your just raking in the cash from game sales and a large user base?

That's whats been going on for the last 4 or 5 years. MS sells the Xbox 360 for more than it costs them to make and ever game sales makes them money as well as all the XBLA subscribtions. But consumers slow down at the end of the gen. Now we are at a point where people aren't buying games as much as they used to. This happens at the end of every generation. It's a natural part of the cycle. Everyone wants the next big thing and amazing games like Halo 4 are giving us a taste of the sweet next gen we all want to experiences.

Sony would be rolling in cash right now if the PS3 hadn't cost so much to produce and MS would have been even richer had they not had to fix the RROD. We are already past the point of when these consoles would have been racking in the cast from game sales. It's time to movie on when the people stop buying and they have started their slow decline.