fleischr on 10 February 2014
| Zekkyou said: I can understand wanting to get rid of Xbox and surface, neither have made much of a return on their total investment despite ungodly amounts of marketing money, but getting rid of Bing would just be plain stupid. Bing doesn't need to make money, it just needs to compete with Google. That said i doubt MS will sell the Xbox brand. They are far too obsessed with this "controlling the living room" jazz. |
The board of directors and are obsessed with profits and the bottom line. If controlling the living room doesn't make them as much bucks as building better business software, they'll bow out. They'd rather do another $10 billion in enterprise software than another $1 billion in gaming.
It's not a question even of "can Xbox be profitable?" it's a matter of "with this amount of time, talent, and other resources, where do I actually make the most money?"
I predict NX launches in 2017 - not 2016
