| Ashadelo said: I actually wouldn't be surprised if Xbox One made more money than 360 and Xbox combined. |
You'd have to define what "made more money" in your books actually means.
There is no question that XOne lost huge amounts of money on hardware (for the most part of its lifetime, the console was available for around 200 bucks in Europe, way below manufacturing price).
The argument "...but GoldPass/Microtransactions/Phil Spencer is God.." is difficult to argue. We simply don't know how much XOne had to contribute to infrastructure/maintaining supply chain/etc to MS (my guess is they were freeloading on the server infrastructure as that is not cheap to maintain/expand).
I still remember the XBox reveal party. I was with a few colleagues, one of which was a MS guy. When the Mattrick show was over, the MS guy had the most pale face I've ever seen. It was clear to all that this was a trainwreck of epic proportions and XOne would be a complete failure (outside of the US "tvsportssportstvtvsports fangroup").
And don't blame Mattrick alone on it. He was an ideal scapegoat but a lot of key people (including Phil Spencer) were sitting at the boss table during the time the vision was developed.
To sum it up: Yes, XBox One was a complete failure. It failed to meet every and all targets. The only achievement was the start of the next console development cycle and the cleaning up of the completely US centric visions. While it looks much better now, the damage done to the brand will take years to repair.
