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By selling consoles at a loss, more people can afford to buy them bringing in a larger audience. And even the people who could afford a more expensive console will simply have more money for games.



Audience capture is indeed the answer, and is probably why Epic doesn't mind.


But there are way more iPhones out there than consoles.




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