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Bullsrun on 10 October 2014
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Mr Puggsly said:
Bullsrun said:

Either way its costing them big, TF Madden all the first party free games.  Any way you add it up its a cost they are forced to eat out of necessity.   As its proven they cant compete with PS4 on a even footing, they need that advantage.  Last big promo of theirs was 2 free games, that had to cost a nice chunk of change.  

Its costing them big, no doubt about that.  

I'm not denying its costing them, but you just pulled a number out of nowhere and its likely wrong.

Last gen MS and Sony spent billions getting their consoles off the ground or losing money from repairs. So as long as MS isn't losing that kind of money early on with the X1, they're in a good position to be profitable in the long run.

Why are you taking this so personally, why are you brining up sony and last gen ? Is it so hard to stay on topic.  Does it hurt oyu they are losing $ ?

Free Fifa14 Fifa15 Titanfall Madden Forza5 Free two games deal, what ever the deal they make with Ea or whom ever.  They got to cover the 30 the publisher would expect to get on x amount of games.  Also they them selves are losing by forgoing their cut to sweaten up the value of the X1.

Its easily past 100 million by now given the amount of giveaways they been doing, why you are so antsy about it i dont get.  

1m free games at 60 a pop, easy 60,000,000 lost.

Maybe some one can actually give a estimate how many x1 sold were bundles with free games.  TF look like it easily pushed 200/300k x1 its forst month on market.