Gameware Stops Selling Xbox Systems in Reaction to Recent Game Pass Announcement

[DonFerrari]

Barozi said:

DonFerrari said:

Do stores make 0 profit from mobile and tablets?

Definitely on some, yeah.
I know this for a fact as my brother used to work in Europe's biggest electronic store and there are tons of device that are sold even at a loss. Especially the ones that are on sale. Just a way to get people into the store and buy something extra.
The real profit comes from other stuff such as cables, peripherals or full priced media.

Sure some are at loss and others are at profit... and we would be talking about removing ALL smartphones and tablets (well they also use less space than Xbox), or in this case they are removing one SKU line but keeping competitor equipment over there, and talking in this case is about tacking out the one that would bring less customers since it is the lowest selling in the country.

Also the smartphones and tablets aren't made with strategies that aim to take away the money from the store on policies changes.

Azzanation said:

DonFerrari said:

 

 

 

 

Maybe you have better chance of being someone uncareful... none of those situations happened to me, but servers shutting down, licenses being removed, etc already happened.

Major benefit, looking at my collection, loaning to a friend, showing off to visits, etc.

 

Lets not make a list on how many games become unplayable via there conditions compared to games being unplayable due to servers shutting down.

Servers shutting down rarely happen and if it does happen it happens to online games or games that no body plays anymore. I have a giant collection of old games and due to there age some of them have completely stopped working. I cannot buy the games anymore and I cannot fix them. I check my Steam account and see all my games I have collected over the 12 years. Not one of them is unplayable and that's over 1000 games. 

If you buy your Digital games off a App that isn't well supported (Outside Steam, Live, PSN, EShop) than that's an issue in itself. The brands I mentioned are not going anywhere anytime soon and that means neither would my games.

Yes let's not make a list because I can keep all my games on good condition while I can't responsabilize for servers.

If you take bad care of your games that is on you, sorry. And you can't be sure about any of those services... Gameloft have been on game for over a decade and now it isn't supported in some devices, Kodak was the leader on its field and basically vanished... you can't be sure about any service or company situation in 10 years. Valve could be bought for some reason and all servers shut, you'll never know.