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Realistically though, how much financial upside can we possibly be talking about here? Many controllers the enable this "cheating" were also probably +1 buys as
by HelloMcFly 3y ago
Realistically though, how much financial upside can we possibly be talking about here? Many controllers the enable this "cheating" were also probably +1 buys as well, not lost sales of official accessories. I just have a hard time believing that controller hardware sales are the primary driver of this.
- ComputerGuru 3y agoI don’t think those controllers are actually the targets, financially speaking, here. They’re the excuse. The target is “normal” controllers that sell for less than Microsoft’s does and are bought by people around the world looking to save money when buying another three controllers.
- georgeecollins 3y agoIf you sell 40m consoles in a cycle, and an xbox controller costs about $60, so lets assume $20 profit to MSFT and you sell an average of 1.5 extra controllers per console sale.. that is $1.2b of profit at stake over the course of the total console cycle. That's over something like five years and they probably get a lot of those profits anyway. But it's not nothing! I a hundred million dollars of profit per year a big deal to MSFT? No of course not. But imagine you are in charge of the peripherals division, or even all of XBox. Then I think it is not unrealistic.