Another price-cut for Microsoft? How much money are they losing with Xbox One?

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MoHasanie said:

Sentient_Nebula said:

smroadkill15 said:
Why does it matter? If any of the three companies can suffer from a loss, it's MS.
You make it sound like a price-cut is a bad thing? The only thing that could be bad about the situation was if MS wasn't being competitive.

Of course MS can take the loss. But they're not in the console business to "win". They're in it to make money. It doesn't matter if Xbox One sells 10 trillion copies if it won't make money.

Yup, and its more important than ever for Xbox to be profitable. More losses will make the shareholders angry. 

Yeh and that way, the consumers won't buy the product! Anyway I estimate that production costs for each XBOX ONE is around 370$. Just cutting it to 349 already losses it 20$ a console. Plus with some bundles including two games, the royalties microsoft has to pay those developers is around 30$ for each game (since they don't make money off it, now thats my guess maybe its cheaper but thats what I say). Thus they lose UP TO 80$ a console (in the US). This isn't nearly as bad as the xbox 360 which was estimated to lose from 125-326$ a console. However for this generation, profitability won't be a main concern, but instead trying to rebuild its cripling fanbase.