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RJ_Sizzle on 05 January 2017
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RolStoppable said:
RJ_Sizzle said:

People own the Xbox One, but what it took to even get the console in people's homes hasn't been the most sound financial strategy. I'm quite sure MS would have liked the product to sell well based on its features and software.  Drastically cutting the price, constant giveaways and putting the games on PC couldn't have been part of the plan. Not to mention adding a 4k player to the current model, already adding to the constant losses for hardware every quarter certainly couldn't have been what MS had in store for the console going into this generation.

I think when it's all said and done, MS will probably be looking at a repeat of the losses they obtained from the original Xbox's era.

I doubt that the losses will be anywhere close to the original Xbox.

1. The original Xbox had Microsoft tied to very unfavorable manufacturing contracts, therefore the loss taken on each hardware sale was high throughout the entire system's life.

2. The original Xbox didn't have anywhere close to as many Xbox Live subscribers.

That could be true, but is there a figure on how many actual gold subscribers there are at this point? You don't need one for PC. Plus, MS wasn't this aggressive at getting the original box in homes in its first iteration. It all depends on what's being balanced out here. Does the Live ecosystem make up for the major deals? I know MS would like to be in a position to have the console be profitable without having to work against it by undercutting.