@legacyrxt: You spend 8 bucks to buy a machine that generates 1 buck for you every year. So for the first year, your balance sheet is -8, followed by -7, -6, -5 etc. till 0. Followed by 1, 2, 3 etc.
Negative figures are red and positive figures are black in accountancy.
@milehighbossman: well, by definition, profit equals revenue minus cost. The Xbox division just spent 8 billion, so they have to make 8 billion in revenue before any profit is generated. And I don't think their annual revenue is 8 billion.
I know you and many people think that rich corporations like Microsoft can just throw away money and not care. The reality is the total opposite. Rich corporations like Microsoft, EA, Activision...even Disney didn't become rich by throwing away money. They spend money expecting a high return of investment. That's exactly why these corporations are company killers. Look at what Bioware is today thanks to EA. And now, I have to expect the same will happen to Obsidian because of Microsoft. No more Pillars of Eternity.
Microsoft's main business is in OS and network. Gaming is just a side job. The 15.5 billion is the profit from the entire company, but this article is written as if all of Microsoft's profit is for the disposal of the Xbox division.
But if I understand anything about Microsoft, they did not just spend 8 billion acquiring Bethesda to stroke fanboy's d1cks. They expect a payback. The Xbox division will be in red for the entire current generation.
not good news. If anything, Omega Force should be doing something different than what they've been doing since Dynasty Warriors 3 on PS2 in 2001. 20 years and running!
But because fanboys support this sh1t, Omega Force will continue doing the same thing
If they were genuinely unaware of the issues plaguing the console versions, why did they mandate that early console reviewers must only use stock footage and not in-game footage?
They knew. But they were hoping that the Day 0 patch will miraculously fix everything. In other words, they were betting that the issues will be fixed faster than the average consumer can encounter them.
@bdrtfm: Refunds can be offered on the basis of consumer satisfaction alone. IKEA allows customers to return any product they're not satisfied with, irrespective of whether the product was defective or not.
@infinity1: I live in Edmonton and one of my buddies has been working in Bioware for the past 5 years. Bioware's downfall has nothing to do with EA, just shitty senior management and poor decisions.
I find that hard to believe. Sure, the management currently might be shitty, but that's because the pioneering management staff have been leaving the company over the past 15 years, ever since EA bought them over. Is it also a pure coincidence that we have not gotten a game similar to what Bioware was known to be good at (eg. Baldur's Gate, Neverwinter Nights etc.) ever since EA bought over? Dragon Age: Origins was the last WRPG Bioware made without EA's influence; it's also the best in the series. Dragon Age II and III being relatively disappointing sequels is also a coincidence? Everything after that has been sci-fi shooting games....nothing to do with EA at all?
@sellingthings: lol, then you missed the context of chiefwiggum16's post. Nobody thinks your lame ass 1070 could run 4k resolutions on every game. But that's exactly the point. Hermits are quick boast about their master race of gaming at 4k@60fps, but from Steam numbers alone, the 'master race' of the Steam community is a mere 0.66%. Nobody is saying that every gamer uses Steam, but most people are reasonable enough to make a correlation between that 0.66% and the unverified fact that if there are indeed gamers around who can game consistently at Ultra HD out there, and who don't also use Steam, there are probably not many...and certainly not more than that 0.66%
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