| tak13 said: I know it and i'm so satisfied by that! Not just selling more than PS3 but also profiting a lot unlike PS3 which was a financial disaster... That's awesome! As regards MS, xbox division it's the least significant division of MS... They make insane amount of money every quarter! For example they're going to drown from the profits of the expensive/overpriced well-selling surface book. Of course, it would be better to make profit on hardware, losses are not a good thing and disgruntle investors but MS isn't relying on xbox... Also, I don't like the fact that they have burnt so many money on xbox division but they they can easily afford to do that, hence they care more for the installbase size/commercial success, and profiting on software/online subscription by extend. They can sell it for 150 if they want and they won't get in trouble, but of course that wouldn't be wise move for obvious reasons... If xbox had become MS biggest division, and they would rely on it, then they would be under pressure to make profit on hardware...
@normachacho this reply is also for you... P.S I'm not an xbox fan, so some people may not like to argue with a non xbox fan who's defending it... eh? |
This really isn't how business works. MS doesn't need the Xbox to survive works in both wsys. If they dont care enough about its sucess then they could also stop caring to invest money into it. Cause in business that money spent on xbox vould have been better spent in some more profitable venture.
And no, they can't sell it for $150 if they want and not get into trouble. If each XB1 cost around $260 to make and they bite $100 on each unit and sell 10M of those at that price in a year. then they have lost $1BL just like that. And this is just on hardware and not talking about all the money spent on marketing and software development.
But you know what? Maybe you are right, maybe the Xbox is the least significant division in MS. Could explain why they are closing studios and not trying to match so y on first party output. Which makes me wonder, what kinda person spends their money on a platform that even its manufacturer doesn't take seriously?
