Something Xbox gamers are now saying

[Dr.Henry_Killinger]

vivster said:

Dr.Henry_Killinger said:

How much really? The royalties for a console are much more substantial then those for publishing a game on PC. Hell, you don't even have to pay to have a game on Windows, just for it to be branded with xbox.

Just think of all the ways Microsoft is currently monetizing Windows other than the initial price. There is a lot of licensing going on from software to drivers to hardware. So Microsoft is making money on gaming hardware, gaming software, gaming peripherals. They're even making money with gamers looking stuff up on Bing. I'd say their revenue generated by PC gamers might even rival that of their Xbox business if not more.

And the bonus of it all? That way Microsoft makes money from pirates. Something every developer would dream of ;)

Developers also can't do any of that so they are all like this.