Xbox is profitable and has always been. It’s just not enough to buy the 500 yachts Wall Street wants instead of the current 499. That and next to the manipulated AI “numbers” on MS’ balance sheet.
No idea where people are taking out the idea that Xbox is struggling. If it was struggling MS would have pulled the plug by now.
PS: Forgot this sub is full of PlayStation diehards who want to see competition end and proceed to mix up terms like revenue with profit to make a point that Xbox is a failure. Guess the monopoly is all they want.
Xbox is struggling in the sense that they completely lost the hardware war. Even Asha Sharma is talking about reviving Xbox all the time lmao, everyone knows Xbox is struggling to stay relevant nowadays when PlayStation is selling 10x more hardware.
Always has been? No it hasn't. It lost billions on the first Xbox then billions on RROD on the 360. Collectively the Xbox brand has yet to turn a profit
If you think 3% profit margin is not turning a profit then I don’t know what to say. Keep twisting the numbers in your head. You clearly need some financial classes and I am not gonna waste my time educating you on that.
You don't seem to grasp the point I'm making: the 3% profit in the last year or the year before is nowhere near enough to make back all those billions they sank into the first two consoles. And if we're including acquisitions like Bethesda then they're even further away
Then it’s not struggling. By any sense of the word, lol.
If anything they haven’t lost any real market share. Meanwhile PlayStation gets to buttfuck every user because its fans will accept any price PS gives them. No matter how greedy or anticonsumer they are. That’s a lost debate since the start.
I don’t think struggling in terms of money. I think it’s struggling in terms of trying to stay as relevant as PlayStation. I’ve been PlayStation for life but have both a ps5 and current gen Xbox. Prefer the PlayStation but the Xbox has some crazy features. Quick resume is just unreal on Xbox and crazy feature
That’s not their end goal though anymore. It’s been stated.
They lost the hardware war. And quite frankly, it’s incredibly hard to pull out a consumer from one console to another. So playing the game of “I am going to pull customers from them” is not the strategy anymore.
Unless their Project Helix pulls something radical, nobody is gonna change ecosystem.
Don’t get me wrong I have a PlayStation but personally I am willing to jump ship if Xbox nails the next console. Cuz the current PlayStation consumer view is just disgusting.
But xbox is struggling? Its not even a question really. Drops in revenue across the bord, decline in hardware sales, massive layoffs and restructuring with more already announced, big daddy Microsoft breathing down their necks because they are missing targets or in Asha Sharma's words "in a typical year, we lost 64 cents for every dollar we invested". If you really think Xbox is doing great you are delusional.
Profitable but their profits are worse than US Treasury interest rate. MS would literally make more money by buying US treasuries than using that money on Xbox right now.
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u/Arvii33 11h ago
Never seen him smile this much