Jumpin on 05 August 2017
Depends on whether the dev time value + flat rate costs = profit; dev time value is not the wage price, but rather the value of that employees time to the corporation (someone might get paid 100K per year, but be worth 4M). Another thing to factor in is share holder expectation which could raise or lower the value of Microsoft shares. Then lastly the number of new permanent customers Microsoft gets, as people just upgrading their console are little to no additional value other than the small bit of extra profit they receive on that console - since software profits don't increase on those customers.
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