There has not been a positive profit margin on a console in quite some time. It increases the potential loss on the hardware but increases the consumer demand, which is a strategy they are betting on.
Yeah, hardware as a loss leader is not a new plan.... Hp, and their printers? The ones people always complain about the ink costs? _HUGE_ loss leader. Depending on the model, the retail price can sometimes be less than _half_ of what it costs to produce. Yeah, let that sink in for a minute.
Can the thread be retitled to something like "Hating on Xbox One" so that a thread for legitimate discussion could be made? Not only has this thread already devolved into general hating on consoles and PC Master Race circlejerking, it was never unbiased to begin with. The OP was about how a bs rumor that Xbox was anti-used game sales, not about discussing the console itself.
This thread is representative of the discussions I've read elsewhere today, even discarding the livesnarking while the event was going on, and the cynical bias of The Internet(tm). People are not happy about a lot of the things announced. Overall positive opinions have been virtually non-existent.
I'm usually quiet about my Master Race membership card (I had to chisel mine out of old mobo PCB), but this was too good of a chance to pass up. Take it with a grain of salt.