Each Xbox console sold, is sold at loss

They do make exclusives "Microsoft" exclusives. I dont see why they would bring them to Playstation if they keep their exclusives to themselves. Microsoft doesnt really care if you get the game on xbox or pc as long as it stays on Microsoft ecosystem.

 

They're free to do it (hell, I don't care so long as they come to PC), but public reception of it wouldn't be good if they changed previously multiplat games over to Xbox only I expect.

They may not care though as you say so eh. Personally I'm not a fan of exclusive games (even PC exclusives) when done for the reason of trying to get you to buy a specific console. For anyone like myself it just means we won't buy the game at all since it's not worth picking up an entire console for one or two games (this is why I'm very happy Sony's brought some titles to PC). They'll lose sales on people like me and they'll gain hardware sales on the people they can push over the edge to buy the console for said games. They probably still make more money off the exclusives, but it sorta sucks for the end user seems to me.

For example, I wanted to play Bloodborne, but I'm not gonna buy a Playstation and the online sub fee (in my view, the online component is pretty important for the Souls games) just for that and maybe two other games I care about. I even would say I got burned on the Switch since Metroid Prime 4 never materialized, many of the ports had serious input lag issues (Doom 2016/Alien Isolation, etc), and they also implemented paid online BS at some point (argh) like every other console now.

 

What loss?Students are forced to build consoles unpaid https://www.eteknix.com/sonys-ps4-made-unpaid-intern-students-foxconn/

 

TIL PS4's made 8 years ago are Xbox's.

 

Nah its the seme BS with PS5 https://www.nme.com/en_asia/news/ga...urrently-being-sold-at-a-loss-by-sony-2873202
8 years age PS4 and xbox were sold at a loss https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/...-recoup-playstation-4-hardware-loss-at-launch

 

I don't know in other countries, but in France, to sell at loss is illegal with some exceptions provided by the law.
https://droit-finances.commentcamarche.com/faq/24092-vente-a-perte-definition

They can however sell at loss during the seasoning sales (I hope I used the good wording ; I meant "soldes" in France).
This is strictly regulated, and for example, Steam (and others) can't use the word "soldes" outside the scheduled dates by the law.

So this news puzzle me. Is it only in some part of the world that they sell at loss ?

 

Those consoles arent made in France stores order them from abroad - local shops make profits from consoles sold.

 

As @BlindBison said, the issue is if they "take away" PlayStation players access to previously multi-platform games. Specifically, I'm thinking about Bethesda games. If they block Starfield or TES6 from PS5, that's going to come across as "anti-consumer" in the minds of many gamers. We saw exactly this backlash with Rise of the Tomb Raider when they bought Xbox exclusivity for a year because the original Tomb Raider came to both platforms at launch.

And I wouldn't call their PC ports "Microsoft" exclusives when they're selling them on Steam. That change happened a while back where they were previously trying to force people into buying Windows Store versions of games. Once news leaked that no one was buying those games, it was only a few months later that they brought their games to Steam.

Even then, selling PC versions of games doesn't do anything for the Xbox hardware business.

 

Dont worry they will you milk you when you will buy the games.. Unless it would be able to run Windows or Linux, you get good HW, which you cant really use. BTW drug dealers will often also give first few doses for free, to make you addict..