pbroy said: Ruler said: pbroy said: Ruler said: pbroy said: As a Sony fan, I agree. M$ needs to sell Xbone. Whoever takes over will have a less capable software team backing up the console and soon the PS4 will be more feature intensive and pass the Xbone in power and experience. Please sell it M$   and what software is it? MS has no devolopers anymore and in hardware design they always failed. The software focus is part of the reason why xbox one failed in the first place = Kinect, power of the cloud UI.... Everyone knows M$ buys gamez even by buying games and devolopers they it arent what it used to be. The x360s launch had rare titles and even two exclusive jrpgs funded by MS, last odessy and blue dragon. Xbox UI was always horrible imo Xbox 360 UI >>>>>> PS3 UI (slow ass molasses)

not true, its faster as long as you dont want to look your trophies. And at least sony hasnt changed it 100 times

Unlike X1, PS4 will be very sucessful and we could be looking at profits similar to the PS2 days for Sony. X1 will be lucky to sell 60-70m whereas PS4 is looking like it will sell 100m+. Basically all I'm saying is that the PS division will be much more profitable this gen then Xbox.  

But my point was that MS doesn't need and want an unprofitable business like Xbox. 

So as a fan of Xbox, you'd rather MS spin it off to another company who would not be able to sustain those losses you mentioned? Or accept that it supposedly "barely" makes money?

Xbox fans should be glad there is a massively profitably, ginormous entity backing it like Microsoft. And PS fans should be glad Sony makes tons of money selling life insurance. Otherwise both divisions would see some pretty drastic cost cutting measures being taken at best.

If a business can't survive on its onw then it doesn't deserve to exist. 

Blah.  I hate predictions and you have no idea what will happen between now and 4 years from now in gaming in general. 

So I'm going to agree with Jay, the logic makes such little sense, I am inclined to not believe you.

There's a prolonged history of losses. The Xbox division only became profitable when the Kinect came out. And now that fad is dead. The only other reason the Xbox division has remained profitable has been because of Skype and Android royalties. 

I'm still wondering how MS plans to make any ROI on that Minecraft acquisition.

MS manages to have a really popular gaming platform in Xbox, but not a really solid business in terms of profit.

That's true but I think its obvious that PS will be much more profitable then Xbox this gen. 

Ok, believe what you want. I don't have to prove myself to you guys. 

But how does that logic not make sense? 

You could say the same thing to the PlayStation brand considering how much money Sony lost all these years.