that's not a real "benchmark" 
But breh, they've made changes !!!
bundles, price drops, removing shyt and it's STILL not working.
its not that big of a deal. the sales are close enough. this is the equivalent of fans celebrating a 10 point lead in the first quarter of a basketball game. coach makes adjustments and keeps the score close enough. it's a long game and they don't wanna be down 30 in the first quarter but they can live with being down 10.
Being outsold 7 out of 8 months (with the lone exception due to constraints in December) is not a good look. Patterns are key in sales breh. If titanfall and a 20 percent price cut isn't doing the job here.....I don't see one territory that MS is gonna claim this gen.
This shyt is over..Xbox was never the global brand Playstation is and it never will be.
Really what difference does it make if its over or not? If I'm the CEO of Microsoft all I'd be concerned about is making money. We'd keep pace with Sony as best as we could to keep the market from becoming lopsided. Outside of that it's maximize profits. If we're making money why does it make if we outsell them or not? That would be my attitude.
The people most heavily invested in this who sells the most contest are internet fanboys. in reality there's no trophy given out at the end of a console generation for the company that sold the most. all that really matters is the bottom line of how much the company invested in the tech and how much it made them back.
Man you need to stop fam......all this goalpost moving is rediculous.
the point is that Sony's lead continues to grow in the one area that MS figured they'd have locked up. Natella gonna sell off xbox....watch....
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But have y'all SEEN Titanfall?
Thing is, microsoft is losing BILLIONS on xbox.
They were fine with the losses before because they had a vision of them taking over the living room.
Now that vision is dead. Now all theyre left with is an albatross costing them billions with no benefit. Why do you think they axed their entertainment/tv ventures.
Theirs been rumblings of many within the company wanting to be done with it. A few potential CEOs have flat out said theyd sell it off.
The race looks closer than it is right now simply because xbox one had a huge first month. Since then its been dead in the water.
I think Nadella and his team are definitely looking at that as a possibility.
The reality is that the XBOX is really only a strong brand in the United States...it is relatively weak everywhere else.
where are the numbers that back this?
analysis had them selling the Xbox One at a small profit and that was with the Kinect. dropping it probably has them still at a small profit if not breaking even on units sold
http://www.joystiq.com/2013/11/26/teardown-suggests-xbox-one-manufacturing-cost-of-471/
http://www.thecoli.com/threads/micr...ats-been-covering-massive-xbox-losses.232689/
I stole that from gaf.
But you cant just look at it like they are making x amount per unit. You have to take into account things like the $400 million nfl Deal, all the games they develop,the hundreds of millions they spend on advertising and all the money hatting of things like cod and bf they do.
Anyway that linj to that thread, its a long read, has links. From there you can find further info.