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One of those companies is going for a last ditch hail mary while facing financial ruin, and if they aren't successful, they will end up out of the hardware game
by viridian 6y ago
One of those companies is going for a last ditch hail mary while facing financial ruin, and if they aren't successful, they will end up out of the hardware game.
- AlexandrB 6y agoThis is news to me. Which one?
- Spivak 6y agoYeah wait, what? The PS5 has so much hype right now and had some of the best exclusives of this console generation, the Switch has been sold out for months, and the Series X reveal was kinda meh but it's not like the Xbox has been hurting.
- tick_tock_tick 6y agoThe probably mean Xbox outside the USA it's not doing too hot which is why they are trying to switch to a SASS platform but I wouldn't say it's dead. console on contract: https://www.xbox.com/en-US/xbox-all-access https://www.xbox.com/en-US/xbox-all-access sale data: https://hookedontech.com/xbox-one-vs-ps4-vs-switch-console-and-game-sales-numbers-2020/ https://hookedontech.com/xbox-one-vs-ps4-vs-switch-console-a...
- viridian 6y agoXbox's financials last two years have been flagging at roughly -2% revenue over expenditures both years, making them the least profitable division within microsoft. This, coupled with the fact that their games software itself had a +30% margin in the 2019 shareholder report, and it's not hard to see the Series X as a possible last ditch effort by the hardware teams.