| endimion said: How can you say it's falling when it's doing better than ever before... Comparing it to the competition and proving it's inferior doesn't make Xbox a failure just not a console war winner.... Xbox is also more than a console today and MS is making good money on it... I'd be curious to see a true net profit comparaison between everything Xbox at MS and everything PS at Sony... Pretty sure the lead wouldn't be as wide.... But even if it was XB is still doing better than ever before how can that be a fall... Gamers and gamers critics should stop trying to do financial analysis they just suck at them.... |
Finally someone with a bit of common sense. Too many people in here believe its all about who's selling more rather than if a company is doing better than they have previously or doing well. Too much is based off numbers rather than dollars.
| Radek said: Ah yes 43 million vs 80 millions (at the same point in 2012) is doing better than ever, having inferior exclusives compared to 360 is better than ever as well. |
360 lost MS billions but it was not the worse last gen, the PS3 lost even more.
X1 isn't in that same situation.
| Barkley said: Well if you do get some evidence later let me know, but I, and I assume most people, don't believe this at all. I also disagree about the 360. I'm sure it was profitable. Xbox Live Gold would certainly be a huge help there. |
Its pretty obvious the X1 is doing better or well and that's based off the X1 hasn't done what the 360 did by putting Xbox in billions of debt. The 360 cost MS $3b however its success would be via there subscription model which MS will not tell us how much they profited by Gold Live members. But if we do some maths, lets say 10m Gold members paying $50 a year for 5 years = $2.5b now we know the 360 didn't have always 10m subs but I believe it rose to about 30m in 1 year and the service went on for longer than just 5 years for the 360 era... anyway I am going too far into it. Lets say its ALOT of money they were making on the side. It is also proven how good the service was to MS which is why MS is focusing on even more digital services this gen and only pushing it further next gen with a Streaming service.
The X1 hasn't put MS in debt not like the 360 did, and its subs are still quite good and with the inclusion of GamePass taking in monthly dollars its quite obviously the X1 is doing well from a business stand point. Yes its not as good as the PS4 this gen, however the X1 isn't in the boat where MS wants to remove it from there business model. If anything MS want the Xbox more and more now than they did with the 360.
