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curl-6 20 hours ago
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Wman1996 said:
curl-6 said:

It's similar, but I still thought it might be worth doing as the Xbox One sold about 2.5 times the OG Xbox and brought way more money; the OG Xbox actually ate huge losses similar to PS3 due to the hardware being costly to make.

Digital distribution has helped Xbox massively. Xbox is one of the few if only hardware brands to (as far as we know) never make a profit on hardware itself. Nintendo very often profits from hardware, and I think even PlayStation has years into their consoles. 

Xbox One in short-term history is more successful than the original Xbox. Especially after it got its price cuts. But not in the long-run, given its damage to the brand. 

Xbox Live money helps too, which they weren't getting for most of the OG Xbox generation, but raked in all gen long on Xbone.

The Xbox One was probably also not losing quite as much money on hardware as the OG Xbox, which apparently got screwed by a bad deal with Nvidia, hence Microsoft moving on to the 360 as soon as they could. With Xbone by contrast they could take their time and ride out the same 7 year cycle as Sony cos they weren't bleeding cash.