Prediction: MS won't subsidize 10th Gen Xbox & it will cost $650 or more.

[Hardstuck-Platinum]

Cerebralbore101 said:

Hardstuck-Platinum said:

So far, there hasn't been any serious consequences from the "mistakes" you mention though. Have the Gaas and PC ports really hurt them? Did people stop buying Playstations like people did with Xbox's ? PlayStation 5 may look like a failure compared to PS4 but PS4 was a less ambitious in its design and engineered with immediate profit in mind. It was always going to be hard to compete with PS4 sales.  

GaaS has definitely hurt them. Between buying Bungie and cancelled GaaS products they've burned 6 billion with no profits outside of Destiny money. PC ports will hurt them next gen. PC ports are a "good for business in the short term, but awful for business in the long term" type of strategy. 

The PS3 vs 360 era was the only time when PlayStation and Sony overall was suffering. Every other console has been a success. GaaS failures and PC ports don't necessarily seriously interfere with the success of a console. You could argue that they could have invested those few billion into better games and kept 100% exclusivity they might have sold a million more consoles, but is that one million console loss going to prove to be fatal for their business? No. This is what I don't understand why people keep harping on about small failures. Has it sold well enough to convince Sony to produce a PS6 ? Absolutely, and that's all that matters. Has XBSS/X sold well enough to do the same? No.