So Amazon would be nuts to let Google upstage its own OS on its tablets, regardless of
lost hardware sales.
Not exact matches
Capcom's critter - killing beat -»em - up easily retains top software slot with 133,500
sales, but PSP
loses hold on
hardware crown.
Barnes and Noble has
lost over a billion dollars on Nook
hardware and each financial quarter they consistently report a 20 % drop in
sales.
How many quarterly
loses of
hardware sales do you need before you have that pivotal wake - up call.
This attacks the heart of traditional publishing but for Apple, what it
loses in iBooks
sales it more than gains from
hardware and services.
It's the
hardware that's
losing ground fastest to Amazon, while digital content
sales keep Barnes & Noble in the # 2 spot behind the undisputed champ.
In this case, what is Amazon
losing, except the
sale of the
hardware, which some have estimated to cost more than $ 199.
Whatever they stand to
lose in
hardware sales could easily be made up in ebook
sales to all those Kindle owners who want the peace of mind that they'll be able to read their library on any device in the future.
Amazon's course, hoping that cheap devices will result in such a significant increase in
sales that it will be worth the initial investment so long as no money is actually being
lost on the
hardware itself, may be the least obviously profitable of these.
Besides they wouldn't be
losing anything since they could off set the cost with increased
hardware sales?
Nintendo stands to
lose more than they gain by doing that, because they'd
lose sales of
hardware, (which by default is a substantial chunk of change, due to each console sold being worth at least 6 $ 50 games) for a miniscule increase in software, from people who's interest in games like Breath of the Wild would immediately die once the next Witcher hits their console.
They would
lose sales of the
hardware, NOT MONEY!
«Nintendo stands to
lose more than they gain by doing that, because they'd
lose sales of
hardware» Not really bud.
Whereas Sony (NYSE: SNE) and Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) have continually whined about the amount of money they
lose with every console they sell, Nintendo has always bragged about its ability to profit from the
sale of new
hardware.
Because of their
hardware focus, canceling first - party game development, and closing studios, the Xbox One has
lost sales to the competition.
I understand their hesitation, but I still don't think anyone is buying current Nintendo
hardware exclusively to play NES and SNES games, so I'm disappointed they're seemingly still too afraid of
losing console
sales to port older titles.
Amazon and Google were willing to
lose money on smart speaker
sales over the holidays by discounting their
hardware in order to gain market share.