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Aura7541 on 06 August 2014
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Mr Puggsly said:
BeElite said:

Fact, Its doing worse then PS3.  

Reality is its not a succesfull platform and nothing at all about the sales over the past 6 months shown any inkling it still can be one no matter how much you hope and spin things. But keep hoping, facts and real world numbers show otherwise.  

PS3 also bled a lot of money. Something I don't believe X1 is doing.

If X1 can't be a success then PS3 was a disaster. PS3 chased away much of the market share and lost money. Yet people still consider PS3 a success. The X1 can be a real success in comparison.

Once again, no spin coming from me  For the entire gen you'll be pissing and moaning about the X1 because it will have relevance.

But you don't know how much money MS invested into the X1, do you? MS invested a lot of R&D into the Kinect and for what? For the peripheral to be unbundled only 7 months later. Not to mention, the manufacturing cost of the Kinect is possibly almost as much as the standalone system. That's a lot of money wasted.

It's even worse considering that the X1 isn't selling that well, either. It's about to be outpaced by the 360 and eventually, the PS3, too. The X1 can make a comeback, but MS will have to invest A LOT of money into exclusives, whether they be moneyhats, 1st parties, whatever. However, investors will not like this and MS will be unwilling to do that anyways. We could be seeing MS treating the X1 similar to how Sony treats the Vita: just take whatever profits you can make from these systems without doing anything and run.