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Swordmasterman on 21 August 2016
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Libara said:
Swordmasterman said:

They failed every time they tried to get some ground this gen, they are selling the Xbox One for free. Now it is very acceptable for them to focus on profit, when a company state "High End" they mean "It will be expensive as hell". What kind of consumer that is in the "High End" level won't have money ?

It will be a bad model if they focus on trying to get installbase, because they will never surpass Sony on that. They need to focus on profit until some opportunity, like the one Xbox 360 had, appears again.

Over 20 million sales isn't nothing, It's lower than the competition but to say it has gained no ground is deluding yourself to the truth. You do realise it outsold the ps4 in July, not by much but wouldnt that equate to "gaining some ground"? Also please tell me where I can get an Xbox One for free...

It outsold the PS4 in July by 10k in the USA (lost by a lot Worldwide), for example, in Japan it got oldsold by more than 80k in the same month. Another fact is that both PS4 and Xbox One are down YOY,  despite the sales( avaliable for over 250US$ with some games) it was unable to sell much more than the PS4 or to stay flat/up YOY.

Xbox One was down YOY last year and, for the most part, down this year too. It sold over 20 Millions units while on USA, last gen, it had  40+ Millions of units sold.

Xbox One was Microsoft's biggest launch, if I remember well,  it will be hard for them to get more consumers after they burned their image over the past few years. For the sake of the Xbox brand, it is better to focus on profit rather than a userbase that will always be less than the competition. On the console Market, or you have the majority of the install base or you will have some games not avaliable for your system.