Microsoft has $1 billion to invest in X1 exclusives

"Microsoft will invest roughly $1 billion for the development of exclusive titles for its newly revealed Xbox One console, Official Xbox Magazine reports in an interview with the game company's Don Mattrick and Phil Spencer."

"Responding to accusations that Microsoft turned its back on its core audience with the reveal of the new general entertainment console, Mattrick stated the company is planning a number of gamer-centric exclusives and deals"

$1 billion is an awful lot of money, but it still remains to be seen if these are actually good games. I'm pretty sure they bought off some third party exclusives and maybe lumped in the exclusive dlc(lol) in that billion. 

Yeah.. that is a large sum... sadly enough most will probably go 1st party which Microsoft has mostly kinect studios....

However, tat is a shit ton of money. Maybe Rare will revive Killer Instinct... at this point that is about the only thing that could make me care.. at all. Microsoft is dead to me in the console world.

Why did Microsoft even enter the console business? It seems to me that all they're doing is throwing away money. By the time they start making profit they need to spend billions for their next generation console. And in total the profit is only a fraction of the expenses.

Last time I checked core gamer-centric meant non-Kinect titles. You morons not willing to wait cracks me up. For all you know they will be reviving Killer Instinct, Brute Force, Crimson Skies, Mechassault, Conker......
No one knows. But hey, keep crying over pointless shit and lose out on a lot of good games.

Last time I checked core gamer-centric meant non-Kinect titles. You morons not willing to wait cracks me up. For all you know they will be reviving Killer Instinct, Brute Force, Crimson Skies, Mechassault, Conker......
No one knows. But hey, keep crying over pointless shit and lose out on a lot of good games.

timbers_WSU

Last time I checked core gamer-centric meant non-Kinect titles. You morons not willing to wait cracks me up. For all you know they will be reviving Killer Instinct, Brute Force, Crimson Skies, Mechassault, Conker......
No one knows. But hey, keep crying over pointless shit and lose out on a lot of good games.

timbers_WSU

Let's just hope they don't get any good exclusives. I'd hate to miss out on something good this gen.PurpleMan5000

Last time I checked core gamer-centric meant non-Kinect titles. You morons not willing to wait cracks me up. For all you know they will be reviving Killer Instinct, Brute Force, Crimson Skies, Mechassault, Conker......
No one knows. But hey, keep crying over pointless shit and lose out on a lot of good games.

timbers_WSU

I'm still on the fence about the xbone but if Rare gives us another killer instinct and Brute Force I will most certainly cave. 

75% for marketing

"Microsoft will invest roughly $1 billion for the development of exclusive titles for its newly revealed Xbox One console, Official Xbox Magazine reports in an interview with the game company's Don Mattrick and Phil Spencer."

"Responding to accusations that Microsoft turned its back on its core audience with the reveal of the new general entertainment console, Mattrick stated the company is planning a number of gamer-centric exclusives and deals"ninjapirate2000

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$1 billion is an awful lot of money, but it still remains to be seen if these are actually good games. I'm pretty sure they bought off some third party exclusives and maybe lumped in the exclusive dlc(lol) in that billion. 

Thats like 10 GTAIVs :cool:

But it might be tough to recoup all of those investments on top of the hardware costs. Do the math and how many consoles + Gold memberships will need to be sold. I'm skeptical about this, s2Chalupas

Lucky for Microsoft you're clearly not in charge of their finances...

"Microsoft will invest roughly $1 billion for the development of exclusive titles for its newly revealed Xbox One console, Official Xbox Magazine reports in an interview with the game company's Don Mattrick and Phil Spencer."

"Responding to accusations that Microsoft turned its back on its core audience with the reveal of the new general entertainment console, Mattrick stated the company is planning a number of gamer-centric exclusives and deals"ninjapirate2000

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$1 billion is an awful lot of money, but it still remains to be seen if these are actually good games. I'm pretty sure they bought off some third party exclusives and maybe lumped in the exclusive dlc(lol) in that billion. 

That is nothing they spend half a billion promoting Kinect alone.

Last time I checked core gamer-centric meant non-Kinect titles. You morons not willing to wait cracks me up. For all you know they will be reviving Killer Instinct, Brute Force, Crimson Skies, [color=pink]Mechassault[/color], Conker......
No one knows. But hey, keep crying over pointless shit and lose out on a lot of good games.

timbers_WSU

Not buying that for one second...

Thats like 10 GTAIVs :cool:

RR360DD

Microsoft will have to donate their systems to needy children if they expect anyone to actually play on them. Nobody is going to buy these.SKaREO

Yeah just like the original kinect would failz right, stupid ass cows galore in this place

That's nothing, they waste millions on timed exclusive DLC, they recently just gave the NFL like 500Million for the Madden deal. Lems should know M$ better by now. If that NFL is counted and it probably is they are already down more then half that. 

"Microsoft will invest roughly $1 billion for the development of exclusive titles for its newly revealed Xbox One console, Official Xbox Magazine reports in an interview with the game company's Don Mattrick and Phil Spencer."

"Responding to accusations that Microsoft turned its back on its core audience with the reveal of the new general entertainment console, Mattrick stated the company is planning a number of gamer-centric exclusives and deals"ninjapirate2000

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$1 billion is an awful lot of money, but it still remains to be seen if these are actually good games. I'm pretty sure they bought off some third party exclusives and maybe lumped in the exclusive dlc(lol) in that billion. 

[QUOTE="2Chalupas"]But it might be tough to recoup all of those investments on top of the hardware costs. Do the math and how many consoles + Gold memberships will need to be sold. I'm skeptical about this, s-Snooze-

Lucky for Microsoft you're clearly not in charge of their finances...

Maybe they need to hire me for some consulting work. Especially the XBOX division. :P I teach Math and Finance 101. 

Why did Microsoft even enter the console business? It seems to me that all they're doing is throwing away money. By the time they start making profit they need to spend billions for their next generation console. And in total the profit is only a fraction of the expenses.

Aparthide

Sonys the one losing money those days, Xbox has turned a profit the last 5 years,

75% for marketing

CDWJUSTIN

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[QUOTE="2Chalupas"]But it might be tough to recoup all of those investments on top of the hardware costs. Do the math and how many consoles + Gold memberships will need to be sold. I'm skeptical about this, s2Chalupas

Lucky for Microsoft you're clearly not in charge of their finances...

Maybe they need to hire me for some consulting work. Especially the XBOX division. :P I teach Math and Finance 101. 

Edit: And no I'm not a teacher, I'm the student lol. 

Why did Microsoft even enter the console business? It seems to me that all they're doing is throwing away money. By the time they start making profit they need to spend billions for their next generation console. And in total the profit is only a fraction of the expenses.

Aparthide

:lol: Didn't they already spend $500 million of that on the NFL Fantasy deal?I_can_haz

Yea, read that not long ago. At last something positive. :)

[QUOTE="RR360DD"]

Thats like 10 GTAIVs :cool:

Kaszilla

[QUOTE="Kaszilla"][QUOTE="RR360DD"]

Thats like 10 GTAIVs :cool:

Oil_Rope_Bombs

[QUOTE="Aparthide"]

Why did Microsoft even enter the console business? It seems to me that all they're doing is throwing away money. By the time they start making profit they need to spend billions for their next generation console. And in total the profit is only a fraction of the expenses.

shawn30

2013 article "Microsoft Xbox division has lost $3 billion in 10 years". So on the whole, XBOX is still not profitable since it's inception. 

http://www.neowin.net/news/report-microsofts-xbox-division-has-lost-nearly-3-billion-in-10-years

Sure, It's been profitable for a few years now with it's biggest year apparantly being 2011, but new console almost always means it will lose money it's first year or two.  So the hole for the XBOX will just get deeper. 

I can tell you, signing huge frivelous NFL deal, massive Halo TV deal, and Billions more on advertising seem more like "throwing the kitchen sink" at a problem than running an efficient, profitable business. Steve Balmer needs to reign these madmen (at the Xbox division) in before they destroy the company.

Their deal with AMD alone on the hardware side is reported at another $3 Billion. The overall hardware costs must be double that or more when you factor in R&D and manufacturing facilities (just talking fixed costs, not variable costs of production). 

http://www.vg247.com/2013/05/27/amd-microsoft-deal-for-xbox-one-cost-over-3-billion/

Again, do the math for how many consoles they will need to sell even assuming a generous $100 profit margin (which will *NEVER* happen at launch). At this pace of spending they are virtually gauranteeing that XBone will not be profitable. But what's worse, they are putting more money at risk so that if it's not successful you won't just have your normal "console launch" losses, but you could have multi-billion write-downs on top of them. Which is basically the same thing that happened to Sony last gen.  

[QUOTE="I_can_haz"]:lol: Didn't they already spend $500 million of that on the NFL Fantasy deal?shawn30

That is alot of Kinect games and timed DLC :lol:

[QUOTE="Oil_Rope_Bombs"][QUOTE="Kaszilla"] Gosh your whackI_can_haz

y'uroe

That's enough for 3 CoD DLC's.silversix_

$1 billion across 15 exclusive games sounds pretty awesome.

And the Microsoft propaganda continues, and Lems fall for it once again.