(Business Perspective) Does MS really need Xbox Hardware?

[DonFerrari]

EpicRandy said:

DonFerrari said:

Tying DLC and content to amibo, fake shortage of All-Stars, some collections/remasters, full price for 5 years after the SW release, quality of latest Pokemon games, no price-cut on Switch, etc... I think Nintendo have took advantage of its customers a lot of time.

Also creating theme console of a game and not bundling said game with it. They got me with the animal crossing theme Switch that I bought to my wife. Never realize the game was not bundled until it was way to late -_-.

Certainly we can defend or prefer one company over another but it is hard to say one company never ever done anything to take advantage of their customer base. At most we can say that we weren't affect or didn't mind that.

Like PS+ I didn't sign it on PS3 because it was late in the gen, PS4 I signed very early because of the "free games" and cloud saving (although the 2 or 3 times I really needed it, it didn't really helped me) but since I don't do MP it being behind paywall is irrelevant for me, but I can certainly see that it was Sony taking advantage of customer (PS+ on PS3 85M userbase was something like 2-5M subs, on PS4 because of the MP it gone to 50M on a 117M userbase).