Egelo said:
RJ_Sizzle said:
Slow down there, Chauncy. This is the goal of every console maker... or frankly, anyone with something to sell. You're hitting the victim mode a little too hard. Coming out on top in NPD is an irrelevant metric, really. It's interesting to talk about on the internet, or if your name is Aaron Greenberg. 2nd place doesn't mean 1st loser. Xbox 360 came out on top in most NPDs last gen, but were still neck in neck wtih PS4 sales worldwide. You don't want to spend the entire gen burning cash to get the product out there when that money could be used elsewhere.
So what's really better in the end, selling more of a product at the cost of a massive revenue loss, or selling less and making a profit? Doing fine is being able to sell the product on its own merits and gradually bringing down the price when it's cost effective, not eating away at revenue to save face for a PR move.
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Showing your console can win in sales is very relevent, its part of MS strategy and reason why its actully managing to compete with the PS4 rather then being dominated liek GC Xbox was or even more embarresingly being the wiiu.
Luckly for MS well they are MS so they can affored all this, and i trust their reasonig for doing things how they are way more then i do yours lol.
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I don't know why people still have that mentality. MS can afford to do a lot of things... but they don't. They could afford to see Scalebound through, they can afford to keep Lionhead open, and can afford not to do layoffs, but it still happens. MS has cash to burn, but it doesn't mean Xbox will always get it. Winning NPDs isn't really good for anything but social media hype, it usually comes down to slashing the prices on the console and freebies to get the console to move anyway. Joe Public could really care less about how many months a console has come ahead in any given year, just one that's not priced out of their range and has the games they like.
And newsflash, they are being dominated by Sony right now. Like, over 2 to 1.
