SvennoJ on 28 April 2016
| Shadow1980 said: The difference was that the Xbox wasn't really a failure (it came in second in the U.S. in the 6th generation), and the 360 was simply rushed to market. The Wii U, meanwhile, has only sold a bit over half what the Xbox did lifetime, and the NX is replacing a system that is dead sales-wise. |
The XBox was worse than dead though. It was sold at a big loss with no way to make the system cheaper due to NVidia not budging on the price of the components. The XBox lost MS nearly 4 billion in the end. Pretty expensive foot in the door. Afaik Nintendo is still making money with the WiiU.
MS needed to switch to 360 asap, although it cost them over a billion more loss.
