Xbox One missteps may end up costing Microsoft $1 billion

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steverhcp02 said:

Dark_Feanor said:
I don't understand the article wording:

Will MS loose 1b by cuting Kinect or that is this the revenue they lost ( 2mi consoles x $500 ) advantage Sony gain early on.

I agree, from teh way I read it Pac is saying over the life of the console its costing MSFT 1 billion. Which he could not know....no one could.

It most certainly has NOT cost MSFT 1 billion dollars LTD so it cannot be up to now that hes referring to.

Moral of story, Pachter.

Agree, anyway if he meant missed profits, and not actual losses, it coud be a reasonable prediction. Worse mistakes in the past on XB and XB360 cost MS larger sums (in BSoD and disc scratching cases they were real losses, in the awful deal with NVidia for XB there were both losses, investments not recouped and missed profits due to the impossibility to competitively price XB as time went by), this time we have a bad series of bad mistakes, but not as horrible as past ones, and all of a kind that causes missed sales, not actual losses.