Indeed.

This is just one of the few hints that spell out the end of the Xbox division.

What cost?

Game development budget is mostly the salaries of the employees.

Titanfall did not sell even half that amount.

You got those figures from some fakeboy turd called insiderp who's about as reliable as MisterXMedia.

Microsoft's own words were, "hundreds of thousands", which means somewhere between 200-300k.

Yes.

I run my own semi-successful business.

I may not run a multi-billion dollar company like Microsoft, but I know how PR departments work.

I have around 12 branches throughout the US and a total of 55 employees under my wing.

3 of them work in the PR department in my company. One of the most common ways of advertising products to consumers is to show them sales statistics. We don't give them exact sales numbers, but if one of our products sells more than 500,000, we ALWAYS say "more than half a million bought XXX" instead of "hundreds of thousands".

RYSE looks like ti can be run on the PS3 with a slight resolution downgrade.

Bullshit. SP only has around 80 employees.

Assuming the average salary of the 80 employees is 80k, SONY would have to spend $6.4 million for their salaries.

Add rent, which should be a couple million per year. SS took 2 years to make, so that pushes it up to $10.4 million.

Voice actors shouldn't cost that much - Maybe 500k in total. That's $10.9 million.

Yeah, bullshit numbers from insiderp.

Microsoft said themselves that "hundreds of thousands of players have played titanfall so far", meaning it sold 100-300k.

If it were 400k, they'd say "almost half a million". If it were 500k, they'd say "half a million". If it were above 500k, they'd say "more than half a million".

You must not understand how PR departments work. Titanfall only sold a meager 300k.

You're not understanding the symbolic significance of this move, nor do you understand how the sales disaster of titanflop is going to damage MS and the Xbone.

Titanfall was advertised like no other game before. I wouldn't be surprised if the money spent advertising titanfall was bigger than the development and advertising budget of every single game from 1950-2013 combined. Despite the monstrous budget, titanfall only managed to sell a pitiful 200-300k units on the Xbone. Do you think other publishers and 3rd party studios aren't taking note? They're observing this carefully. Assuming that the people running these companies have any ounce of intelligence, they'd probably NEVER accept exclusivity deals with Microsoft.

At least with SONY, SONY had Naughty Dog, Santa Monica, Polyphony, and Media Molecule. The only thing MS has is 343i, and they're worse than SONY's worst 1st party studio. Microsoft will have the worst 1st party games, no 3rd party exclusives, the worst multiplats, and the worst OS.

This could be it for Xbox*.

The Xbone would have trouble just rendering the rain.

How did MS engineer such a clusterfuck?