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QuintonMcLeod on 02 February 2014
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sully1311 said:
QuintonMcLeod said:

kowenicki said:

 Lol.  All the same source ffs, all around the same time.  This is actually quite embarrassing now...

Look at the accounts, open your mind and learn something.

An opinion in an article is just that.  The accounts are fact.

If you knew anything about accounts and business you would know this is horse shit and wouldn't be posting it.  Therefore I'm guessing you know nothign about it.

 

Interesting. A new breed of blind fanboy loyalists.

I'll tell you what. Lets just use one source: Business Insider.

Business Insider said:

Microsoft is generating $2 billion per year in revenue from Android patent royalties, says Nomura analyst Rick Sherlund in a new note on the company.

 

He estimates that the Android revenue has a 95% margin, so it's pretty much all profit. 

This money, says Sherlund, helps Microsoft hide the fact that its mobile and Xbox groups are burning serious cash. 

For the past few years, Microsoft reported the revenue and operating losses of Entertainment and Devices, which was the group that housed Xbox, Windows Phone, and those Android royalty payments. 

 

That group always seemed to be profitable, but Sherlund says it's largely because of the Android money.

Sherlund says that if you back out the Android profits, Microsoft is probably losing $2.5 billion on Skype, Xbox, and Windows Phone. Of that, $2 billion in losses are attributable to the Xbox platform. 

Sherlund believes Microsoft needs to spin out Xbox. He sees it as an orphan group at Microsoft that doesn't really fit with anything it's doing. 

Investors are blind to Xbox's struggles, says Sherlund, because they are "concealed by the hugely profitable Android royalties."

 

http://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-earns-2-billion-per-year-from-android-patent-royalties-2013-11#ixzz2sCc0OpHI

 

Oh, and Forbes also has something to say about this:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2013/12/07/is-it-game-over-for-the-xbox-one-thanks-to-mandatory-kinect/


Have you even read the MS financials?


The real question is: Have you?

Several publications are telling you that the Xbox division's financials are group up with other divisions. They also continue to say that a lot of the losses found are masked under android royalties. They are projecting around 2 billion dollars in losses for the Xbox division alone. This is with the Xbox One in mind.