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Bullsrun on 10 October 2014
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Dark_Feanor said:
Bullsrun said:

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.

Let me see if I understood you correctly:

You say, that for each game MS bundle for free with the console they lost $30?

Well, well... sorry to inform you but publishers don´t get 50% of each new game sold EVER!

It´s a lot complicated, but look at some Michael Pachter videos. I would be surprise if Microsoft "lost" more than $10 for each third party game bundled, specialy if they are download codes.

Patcher, lol really.

What dont you get ? paying for marketing and giving away a game = a loss.  Paying to develop a game like Forza5 and giving it away = a loss.  Funding TF dev and giving it away = Loss.  They are not recuping their investments, good thing a few hunreths million is pocket change for them.  Till investers start whining about xbox being a black hole.  

Spin things all you want, they are burnign through $ at a high rate with all these giveaways.  

I want to know why do some of you take ms losing $ so personally ?