Arkaign said:
Xbox has never been about revenue AFAIK, the only conceivable value it has to MS is in consumer outreach and brand awareness. Xbox OG lost a massive amount of money (but still nothing in MS big picture financials) X360 started out losing a ton of money with RROD replacements in vast numbers, before probably nearly breaking even later on (for the 360 only, not enough to cover OG losses) X1 hasn't exactly lit the world on fire, so probably negligible profit/loss consideration. Xbox as a whole is a grain of sand in the Microsoft economic empire. Statistically irrelevant, in strictly numbers talk. The purely smart financial move would have been to never venture into console gaming to begin with. Thankfully, there were those that realized that pure profits aren't the only factors in the world. Without Xbox, many consumers, particularly the younger set, would never think about them one way or the other. TLDR : Basically Xbox is utterly and completely irrelevant to MS in terms of P&L. They make more in a quarter from their business software products than Xbox and PS together make in MANY years combined. |
So your saying that they are retaining xbox for the sole purpose to making younger people like their products to the point where they buy Microsoft Office and windows operating system based computers? If so, I disagree. Yea, sure, iphones and ipads dominate, but in the world of actual computers apple is a joke compared to the sales of windows based computers, and I don't see that changing really, not with Windows 10 having a ton of convenient changes made to the bad windows 8 operating system. 10 is like the perfection of 7, which was what vista should have been succeeding arguable the greatest OS of all time, proportionally; XP.
