Something Xbox gamers are now saying

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Devil_Survivor said:

Mr Puggsly said:

Devil_Survivor said:

Yeah but, how much money did they make off those 83 million consoles? Next to nothing.

Next to nothing... compared to other things MS does. At this point it seems like game consoles are just a vehicle to push other products. Game consoles don't appear to be as pofitable as they once were. Sony and Nintendo give me that impression.

Anyhow, your response wasn't relevant.

How is not relevent? He asked if Xbox worked out ok for Microsoft and I said no because in fact have actually lost money on to point some people in the company want it gone or at least spun off to its own company. Sony actually makes a lot of money from gaming consoles as evident from their Q1 finanical report. With Nintendo, with the exception of Wii U they generally make a big profit off their consoles.

Actually I asked if having windows-shared games worked out for Xbox sales, and it did - marvelously. 

Microsoft made plenty of money from Xbox 360 - would have been astounding if it weren't for RRoD. Its harder to tease out from Sony's figured, but for all the money they are making off PS4 now (still not that much), they lost a truck tonne on the PS3 (some of which they are making up at the back end now).