jlmurph2 said:
bowserthedog said:
jlmurph2 said:
bowserthedog said:
Is the wiiu really failing? I feel like it will turn a profit in the long run and Xbox One likely will be profit negative. It might end up being similar to the Ios/android race. Android has an 80% market share worldwide however Apple is making the lions share of profits. So would you label the IOS line of phones to be failing simply based on hardware unit share?
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Comparing Wii U to the iPhone? Nice.
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I made that comparison to pose a question. What is more relevant to a product being considered successfull hardware unit share or profit? If the Wiiu ends up selling 25 million hardware units and turns a profit and Xbox one sells 65 million hardware units but loses money is the wiiu a failure and the xbox one a success?
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1. The Wii U won't sell that much
2. The E&D division of MS has not taken a loss even with the Xbox One price cuts. If the Xbox One sells 65 million hardware that means that Xbox One sold a ton of software. Xbox has the best tie ratio in the industry and MS knows it.
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There is a lot more than Xbox that goes into MS's e and d division. I can assure you that in the upcoming quarter which includes the price drop microsoft is losing money on the xbox one. Looking at Microsoft's profit in the E and D division to make statements on the success of the Xbox One would be about as relevant as looking at sony's overall losses for insights into how successfull ps4 is.
