ThatDanishGamer said:
ZarskiSold said:
Their early strategy sunk then for a gen, the hardware cant be changed and they are stuck. Contrary to fanboy opinion, MS will not waste their bank account on buying X1 into a success. Their fire sale was as far as they will go and it was only temporary hopeful showing all they just will not eat loses long term. To do PS4 numbers in 3 or 4 markets they need to be sub 100, if they cut price that much so will sony. They are dammed no matter what, they should openly just accept 2nd and plan for the next gen. |
They are already doing that. By buying exclusives, promoting a large ammount of 3rd party games, taking a loss on the console by reducing the price twice and giving free games and money to those who buy the console.
And paying 2.5 billion for Minecraft (not only xbox.)
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See when you buy a exclusive you can guess well enough its sales its worth and make a busines case for it. IF MS was willing to waste $ on xbox they would have launched at 399 from Day one. But they didnt. They are not willing to eat such loses,
Minecraft has nothing to do with xbox, its may be worth it. Wasting tens of billions on xbox to try equall PS sales in a handfull of marlets clealry is not.
