• PopOfAfrica@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Of course they have. Consoles are a loss-leading model. They literally lose money every time they sell you a video game console. If you can get somebody in your ecosystem on a separate system, why wouldn’t you?

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        6 months ago

        They might stop. The rumor is they are swapping to premium Steam Deck style, Xbox Branded PCs next gen.

        They could sell a niches product like that at at profit if they wanted.

        Nintendo for example, has always avoided the loss leading model, and makes like $50 off each unit sold. (Those figures were from launch, its Likely more now that production costs have inevitably gone down over time)

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          6 months ago

          From the article:

          Xbox has no plans to abandon hardware, despite what these sales trends may start to suggest.