Lafiel said:
Yea, I ment, that MS probably don't want to burn billions of cash to ensure Xbox1 is successful. Molyneux left MS, but he said that when he was still there they had 2 concepts for the next Xbox, one was a budget machine and one a high-end machine, but both were designed to be profitable from the start. |
i'm sure thye don't want to burn money. now one wants to lose money. but MS knows what they are making on xbox 360 right now. if they think an investment can return more users (expand into tv, capture sony fans, new subsriptions, ect) they'll do it. it remains to be seen if they are good investments but any investment has an element of risk. ..but the worst thing ever is the make all these investments and then let a "little" issue like yeild take down the farm.
..it's like in poker when you know you know hand isn't the strongest but you have so much money on the table you can't fold. between games, nfl, halo TV show, hardware R&D, azure cloud thing,.. MS is probably a good 3-5 billion invested already. maybe more. they'll take a short term hit if they have to just like sony did with the ps3. hopefully the gamble works out better for MS than it did for sony.
