| Soundwave said: XBox One will still sell 50 million units or so, comparing it to the Wii U or GameCube is laughable. |
Nintendo probably made more money from the Gamecube generation than Microsoft will from their Xbox One gaming generation.... efficiency is key. The Gamecube also had a relatively short life cycle (really like 5 years?)
For the past few generations the Xbox brand has been a money pit for Microsoft. And at this point its obvious why they bother- they are pushing towards trying to bring the gaming market into the PC (Windows) market so they'll have a big control of the pie. It's worth the investment for them.
The fact that you seriously think that Microsoft is in the gaming market with the Xbox to genuinely just play the long game with home consoles it just asinine. They don't make much money from it. Their goal has been quite obvious for a while, pull gaming towards a unified Windows platform where their software programs for PCs make them the real money (wouldn't surprise me if they hope to have some sort of Windows gaming app to sell eventually either)
