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FATALITY on 23 September 2014
walsufnir said:
FATALITY said:
walsufnir said:
Fusioncode said:
With all the free game bundles and temporary price drops I can't imagine how much money Microsoft is losing on the console right now.


Hmm, I doubt it's that much. I think both consoles have almost the same price in manufacturing, PS4 could be even higher. And I heard a while ago that Sony is starting to make money with PS4 hardware so MS could be on profit with the hardware, too.


you are wrong. last report from some website that i read on neogaf said the xbox was more expensive to make than ps4. and gdrr5 memory is dropping the price very fast. drr3 still expensive.


"You are wrong" without any prove? Nice... And what? GDDR5? How would you know? And MS and Sony don't walk into a shop and buy memory... There are contracts made with partners and they achieve prices customers can't even dream of.

I only could find this: http://venturebeat.com/2013/11/29/the-deanbeat-the-xbox-one-cost-471-to-make-the-ps4-costs-381-and-why-this-matters-in-the-long-run/

 

There you have Kinect-Xbox-One at $471

PS4 $381.

By them Kinect is woth $75 so we have $381 against $396. Given these are all only estimates we get a feeling both are very close to each other in cost.


see my post above



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walsufnir on 23 September 2014
FATALITY said:
walsufnir said:
FATALITY said:


you are wrong. last report from some website that i read on neogaf said the xbox was more expensive to make than ps4. and gdrr5 memory is dropping the price very fast. drr3 still expensive.


"You are wrong" without any prove? Nice... And what? GDDR5? How would you know? And MS and Sony don't walk into a shop and buy memory... There are contracts made with partners and they achieve prices customers can't even dream of.

I only could find this: http://venturebeat.com/2013/11/29/the-deanbeat-the-xbox-one-cost-471-to-make-the-ps4-costs-381-and-why-this-matters-in-the-long-run/

 

There you have Kinect-Xbox-One at $471

PS4 $381.

By them Kinect is woth $75 so we have $381 against $396. Given these are all only estimates we get a feeling both are very close to each other in cost.


see my post above

I don't have to, I found the same link.



thismeintiel on 23 September 2014

Well, hopefully this will stop some from making the ridiculous claim that MS doesn't care about beating Sony, and are only worried about profit. I highly doubt MS has made much, if any, profit off of the One. Not with all the price cuts (temporary or permanent) and bundling 1 or 2 of their biggest games in for free. It's obvious that they don't want to lose to the PS4.



 

Puppyroach on 23 September 2014

I love console wars, good for prices and deals :).



walsufnir on 23 September 2014
thismeintiel said:
Well, hopefully this will stop from making the ridiculous that MS doesn't care about beating Sony, and are only worried about profit. I highly doubt MS has made much, if any, profit off of the One. Not with all the price cuts (temporary or permanent) and bundling 1 or 2 of their biggest games in for free. It's obvious that they don't want to lose to the PS4.


 

But let's not pretend Sony isn't doing any bundles with "free" games. Not official bundles but you can easily find them if you want to (meaning bundles with more than 1 game for a little above 400 euros or 1 game for 399...).



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MoHasanie on 23 September 2014

Wow, people at launch paid 429 pounds for it :O.



    

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bananaking21 on 23 September 2014
thismeintiel said:
Well, hopefully this will stop from making the ridiculous that MS doesn't care about beating Sony, and are only worried about profit. I highly doubt MS has made much, if any, profit off of the One. Not with all the price cuts (temporary or permanent) and bundling 1 or 2 of their biggest games in for free. It's obvious that they don't want to lose to the PS4.


"At some level, it is a competition, and I've said before I want to win," Spencer tells us.

Spencer knows that the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 will continue to be compared. "We shipped at the same time and we're in direct competition with the PS4," he admits. "I'm not going to duck that. I want to win. I want to win this generation, but I want to win more than I want the other guy to lose. 

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thats from good old phil spencer himself, he said it before he "wants to win". who ever believes otherwise is delusional. 



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radishhead on 23 September 2014

£330 is still so expensive!



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Nem on 23 September 2014

Aha... now they are talking. Took them a while to realise they had no chance unless they were cheaper than the ps4. Not a 100 euro difference, but getting there.