| Mr Puggsly said: It doesn't annoy me. I'm telling you your wording is misleading even if that wasn't your intent. Nobody ever said CoD was a MS franchise because Playstation still accounted for a significant number of sales. No, from the start I said X1 should have launched for $299 without the Kinect. Perhaps $399 with Kinect. The Kinect should have been an option from the start. MS can't worry just about pleasing share holders all the time, nor do they try. You consider revenue lost from hardware sales and ignore revenue gained from software, accessories, and subscriptions. Hence, a larger userbase gives other opportunities to make profit. MS has plenty of money and can afford to take risks with Xbox. Even if the Xbox brand itself hasn't been profitable, it has likely helped push other MS products and services. MS could have sold the X1 for $299 w/o Kinect and $399 w/ Kinect. Now they are wasting money on damage control. I wouldn't be surprised if the X1 is becomes $299 for the Halo 5 launch. |
I promise you I read an awful lot of people say COD was microsofts new baby. Read it so often I'm shocked you never seen it.
I will kindly disagree with you on the price. If they could have launched with that price they would have. They new long before launch they were going to get an ass kicking and if they wanted to stop it the logical thing would have been a price drop. Something tells me MS don't want to bleed so much money from xbox anymore.
