Xbox One back at $399

[DonFerrari]

Nate4Drake said:

DonFerrari said:

Ka-pi96 said:

Well I'm not an investor, I don't really care about that. I'm a gamer and bigger install base means it's more likely to get more games. So yeah I'd prefer consoles sold to money earned.

Yep... the only reason I don't want Sony to sell the consoles for a too great loss is because that could divert money from developing games... but yes... as gamers if a company take a billion loss to double or triple the fanbase and that translates to more games we don't need to care.

As a XBox gamer 'you' should care about the continuation of the XBox Brand; there won't be another XBox after the successor of XOne if this successor will be disappointing like XOne. Even the rich MS is not here into videogames to waste money.  

You will never double or triple the fanbase making this very aggressive deals in just NA and UK for 8 weeks per year.  You increase your Global User base by a 5-7% losing hundreds of millions $$$. You will never regain this selling a slighty bigger % of games and accessories unless you do it for a long time.  And nobody will ever give you back the wasted money. MS was forced to do it because they were in a very critical situation, they had no choice. They conceived the X1 in a way MS truly believed it could work, of course, it's their creauture. But it didn't, poor sales, so they tried with the Kinect-Less SKU, but still PS4 was killing the X1.  So ? What to do when you get crushed in your Own Territory by PS4 when 360 dominated in NA vs PS3 ?  The were forced to make another price cut and go with insane deals. Of course it worked, giving away games in that way... this is not a strategy to have a slighty bigger user base so that you sell more games and accessories, it was the final move to get out from a critical situation and get some hype and talking.

I'm not an MS fan or Xbox gamer... so if they burned 10B dollars and still failed I wouldn't mind much. But since I have friends who game on X1 I expect it to be sucessfull enough to have good games and spam a X2.

But I don't see much MS can do to truly win the gen (even if only in USA), they seem more keen on putting good numbers on holidays and that is it.