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Drakrami on 15 February 2014
vivster said:
They can't ditch it. It's the number 1 platform for promoting Bing. I can't see another company overtaking the gaming division either. Xbox needs the media and cloud network of MS.


you know nothing about microsoft. They have given up on search 1-2 years ago already. 



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coolguy on 16 February 2014

Ms won't pull the plug at E3 they will drop the price and drop kincet .kincet is the nail in there coffin



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Mystro-Sama on 16 February 2014

Don' t worry they can survive off their insane amounts of ads.



Dr.Henry_Killinger on 16 February 2014

Xbox will probably last forever.



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JLC215 on 17 February 2014

This launch was merely the opening skirmish, next E# and leading up to holiday 2014 is where the real first major battle will take place.



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ironmanDX on 17 February 2014
Legend11 said:
DonFerrari said:

I will start by saying I'm not trolling spewing doom or downplaying the good launch of Xbox One.

But if we go by NPD January 2014 numbers, X1 sold almost 1/2 of Ps4 and with all the push from some shareholders to kill consoles division and previous history from original Xbox cut of support we can say it isn't impossible for Ms to pull the plug. And since I doubt Sony would let them release nextbox a full year before Ps5 (that is if Sony don't sink before it) Ms won't be able to repeat the scenario of X360 sucess so maybe they could decide to kill the division if Xbox One bombs (in their metrics, not in the quality of the system or games)?

If you were to guess, in which scenario Ms would kill it's division? How many units sold in how long?

I predict that if Xbone fails to sell 30M LTD before 5y on the market they will leave the bussiness. Likewise if before this timeframe they drop to less than 3M a year it would also happen let's say year 3 it meets 30M and it's viable but start dropping fast and year 5 it sells 2M then I would say they may release a premature Xbox 360 Two.

That's exactly what you're doing...   It would be like me going into the Sony forum and asking "What if Sony started losing 2.5 billion a year for the next 7 years, would it be the end of the Playstation brand?"  Do you think that would even be worth discussing?

The system has only been on the market for 3 months and is selling faster than 360 did.  So why not at least wait to see if it actually runs into trouble before making threads with imaginary disaster scenarios.

Finally!! Someone else gets it! Everyone here is so short sighted... Very short sighted. They're concentrating on post launch numbers right at the drop off and not considering that the Xbox One had a top 3 launch for a console of all time...

The way Sony is going and selling stuff off, the PlayStation brand is potentially in more trouble!! Wake up internet!



Zappykins on 17 February 2014

Sure they would. But anybody who has ever followed gaming would tell you the Xbox One is anything but a disaster.



 

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Dr.Henry_Killinger on 17 February 2014

For Xbox to be put on the chopping block it needs Zune Level failures + Major loss of Live Subscriptions. Only the US market truly matters to Microsoft, and their goal is to get into the living room. Unless they can find someway to do it better, they won't get rid of it.



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DarkWraith on 24 February 2014
Mr Puggsly said:
DarkWraith said:
Mr Puggsly said:
Who knows who cares?

Can't predict the future, we just know MS needs to make some price changes in the future to stimulate sales.


well...now this is just from someone who uses their brain, but it probably matters to people considering buying the unit and people who own it because if the product is discontinued there is almost no incentive for games to be published on the platform if the base is below X.

Good thing that possibility is slim and none.

But it doesn't take much of brain to realize that.

slim and none? S & N -> P, P can never succeed. please learn logic this is embarrassing



selnor1983 on 24 February 2014

The Titanfall bundle is about to release which gives TItanfall for free with the console. I said before all Sony fans jumped way to soon on Xbox doom. Watch Titanfall reinvigor the battle. And PS4 is still available in over 40 more countries.

The arrival of this day 1 Titanfall bundle is gonna kill PS4 in UK and US.