Protendo said:
IFireflyl said:
Juma009 said:
The only thing that defines if it's a success or failure is the existence of profit for MS, too bad such information is not out. |
You have the math I did in my previous post. The Xbox One through December 2014 cost Microsoft approximately $55 million. Microsoft has over 46 million Xbox Live Gold members. At $50/year that's approximately $2,300,000,000 they're making every year. The console itself isn't supposed to profit. None of the Xbox or Playstation consoles ever made a profit. So the math is out. The Xbox One is not a failure. It has surpassed the Xbox 360 in sales. It has lost less money than the Xbox 360. They still have billions in revenue coming in from Xbox Live Gold. The Xbox One is, empirically, not a failure.
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Your "math" is invalid. In order to calculate the profits/unit for the Xbox One you have to consider the following:
1.) The "math" does not account for the fact that price of DDR3 continually becomes more expensive as time goes on, the Xbox One will cost more now as a result.
2.) The "math" does not include shipping
3.) The "math" does not include packaging
4.) The "math" doe not include retailer cuts
5.) The "math" does not factor warranty costs
6.) The "math" does not factor returns
If your going to state things as facts, at least try to be accurate. I'm not even taking things like the $100 million dollar NFL deal into consideration. To help you out we'll consider all those failures as a sunk cost.
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My math in my previous post was fine. Estimated loss for the first 14 months of the Xbox One was $55,000,000. Estimated loss for the first 14 months of the Xbox 360 was $559,000,000. Those numbers were just including the console costs. You need to read. I didn't include any of those factors you mentioned into the cost of either system. You don't know those factors. You're just trying to be right, but you aren't.
