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Captain_Tom on 28 August 2013
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DietSoap said:
CGI-Quality said:
DietSoap said:
As much as I'd love to believe, I assuming this is just another case of VGChartz doing a complete fuck up job of tracking. If the One isn't winning NA, it's not winning anywhere, and I can't believe Microsoft would just left them have it like this.

Because MS can't control what's going to happen, especially not right now. What's done is done, and one of these machines is $100 cheaper, with much better market perception. Nearly a complete flip-flop of the PS3 vs 360.

 They can control the price, for one. Drop the shitty Kinect garbage and sell it for $350, undercutting the PS4 by $50 in an attempt to justify the weaker hardware. Even Nintendo ended up dropping the Wii U price today despite all their insistence they wouldn't/it wouldn't be possible.

They have the money to take a serious loss, and if Pachter is to be believed (yeah, I know), they're already selling the $500 sku at a slight profit, so this wouldn't even be a serious loss. They can't afford to not be competitive right now.

MS invested countless millions into making Kinect 2.0 the powerhouse it is to the point that they neglected the base hardware a little.  They did this because they felt everyone would buy a console that has both Wii and Halo/Gears appeal.  That is the soul of the console and what it is designed to be!

 

They simply cannot afford to throw away all of that R&D and sell the console at a $100 loss because it would bring the Xbox debt past 5 Billion dollars once again for no reason other than to say they sold more!  

 

MS created the Xbox division to get into the living room and eventully keep it there as a successful long-term brand.   However it is the third generation of Xbox and MS is still hemorging money to keep this brand afloat.  If the Xbox One, the actual incarnation of what Xbox was always supposed to be fails to make the profit they have always wanted, than Xbox fails and it will be done.  There is no point in bleeding money to make a "Me-Too" product like the Zune was.