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Machiavellian on 14 February 2014
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fleischr said:
Machiavellian said:

Noticed that I say that the activist do not have anywhere near enough votes to get MS to do anything.  You are going in circles.  They make up less than 1% of the votes needed to make any change within MS.  I really do not know how else to explain that point to you.  Your business case was there for years and nothing has come of it then and nothing has changed now.  There still is not enough pull from those investors to make MS change anything they are doing.

The only thing that will change is if the new CEO deem a change but the fact that he brought back Bill Gates into the fold, I highly doubt it.  Do you believe the investors that want Sony to spin off the PS4 have any weight to make that happen.  Do people just believe one over the other because thats what they want to happen or have you taken the time to research the situation and validity.  I can tell you that I have researched both.

Regardless of whether either of us is right about whether MS's board would want to spin off the company or not -- they're not going to do a price cut on Xbox One this early. Investors were actually quite happy that the Xbox One helped MS reach record revenues. With that, why change the price so soon? A price cut may make their sales more competitive with Sony, but they'd be doing so at a loss. (Since no Kinect-less Xbox One is available yet, and no official announcement of that being in the works).

Investor prospective: An Xbox One price cut would likely shrink revenue and sink profits.I think what has changed is that they don't have the patience to put up with that.

Gaming is now one of Sony's more profitable ventures. With the rest of the company still doing badly though, selling a piece of it might be the only way to keep Sony's head above water. Investors would rather buy a piece of a winning business, rather than one plagued with the issues other Sony divisions have.

I totally agree with you that MS probably will not do any price cuts this early.  If anything MS will do what they have done with the 360 for years.  They will give out timed price cuts during the holiday or maybe bundle a game to increase the current price value.  Sometime next year probably during E3, we will see a price cut.