Do people realize it's almost impossible to kill a douopoly console? (SONY/MS/XBox One)

[Dr.Henry_Killinger]

fatslob-:O said:

Chris Hu said:

Well the fact is you are to young since you probably wheren't even aware of Halo 2 when it got released but the fact still remains it was a huge deal when it got released no other game got that much press coverage on its release date during that decade in the US.

Halo 2 was IRRELEVANT to your agument since the original point was about xbox and gamecube being failures. 

It's a FACT that xbox was a failure and NO GAME will redeem it as such in that light. 

You keep talking about how the OG Xbox was a failure. On what grounds? Profit? It came late in a generation already dominated by its competitor, it was like PS3 vs 360 times 100. So its understandable why it would lose money, investments tend to actually have cost.

Ask yourself, if the OG Xbox was such a failure, why did every console since its release have a hdd and online networking? Dreamcast didn't make it standard neither did PS2.

Contrary to popular belief, manfacturing in the console gaming realm is an investment, hence the loss leader model that drives it. Sales and quaterly profits, that is just the actualization and realization of return on investment. PS4 is selling on Price and Goodwill, both things that are results of last generation. So to call the Xbox and GameCube failures because their sales were dwarfed by the PS2 is ludicrous.

The GameCube was profitable, end of story.

The Xbox built the foundation upon which its succesors have profited.