Pachter: Xbox division on fire, Xbox Live is wildly profitable

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Xoj on 28 May 2010

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If the number of paying subscribers is correct, then the 360 is only making profits right now because Microsoft charges for online play. At least that's what I get out of this.

probably is, since they have no first party games or published games.

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dnnc on 28 May 2010

exactly it's something that has either been said or just plain obvious, so please save praise, Pachter is still a douche

my signature went on strike, it's demanding 3% raise

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noname2200 on 28 May 2010

Xoj said:

RolStoppable said:
If the number of paying subscribers is correct, then the 360 is only making profits right now because Microsoft charges for online play. At least that's what I get out of this.

probably is, since they have no first party games or published games.

...

?

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Xoj said:

RolStoppable said:
If the number of paying subscribers is correct, then the 360 is only making profits right now because Microsoft charges for online play. At least that's what I get out of this.

probably is, since they have no first party games or published games.

...

?

profiting. not big first party games were released this quarter, no big one at least to maintain a division, so its probably profiting due life.

maintaing a network it cheap. compared what they make off subcription

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noname2200 on 28 May 2010

Xoj said:

profiting. not big first party games were released this quarter, no big one at least to maintain a division, so its probably profiting due life.

maintaing a network it cheap. compared what they make off subcription

Ah, gotcha!

Although as someone who works part time for a company which services computer servers, I can tell you that maintaining a big network can actually get surprisingly pricey. So many things can and do go wrong, and fixing them ain't cheap!

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MonstaMack on 28 May 2010

Yeah the 360 has been very profitable despite the doomsay of RROD and massive costs of the original XBox. A profitable entry is inevitable for MS in the console world unless the 720 makes them bleed money again.

It's just that simple.

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DarkisWR on 29 May 2010

Xoj said:

RolStoppable said:
If the number of paying subscribers is correct, then the 360 is only making profits right now because Microsoft charges for online play. At least that's what I get out of this.

probably is, since they have no first party games or published games.

So enter the ...well you know.

When did the console market have to make a profit off of only 1st party games?

I really tire of you on these threads. You know what you are and how you come to every dang thread that has anything about 360 to troll is just getting old.

You should ask your self...why the hell you hate soo much.

Like to see you eat your words when sony pushed that new sub stuff...yeah. I already know what your going to say. pFFFFF!

Don't even get me started on your more than broken english...atleast I know how to articulate if I have to for folks.

Sorry for calling you out...but danm..you ruin topics just for the lawlz of it kid.

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Xoj on 29 May 2010

DarkisWR said:

Xoj said:

RolStoppable said:
If the number of paying subscribers is correct, then the 360 is only making profits right now because Microsoft charges for online play. At least that's what I get out of this.

probably is, since they have no first party games or published games.

So enter the ...well you know.

When did the console market have to make a profit off of only 1st party games?

I really tire of you on these threads. You know what you are and how you come to every dang thread that has anything about 360 to troll is just getting old.

You should ask your self...why the hell you hate soo much.

Like to see you eat your words when sony pushed that new sub stuff...yeah. I already know what your going to say. pFFFFF!

Don't even get me started on your more than broken english...atleast I know how to articulate if I have to for folks.

Sorry for calling you out...but danm..you ruin topics just for the lawlz of it kid.

well nintendo profit are from first party games, they don't charge for online.

microsoft doenst publish or make many first party games, they get smaller fee from third party (sony and nintendo does too).

but microsoft it selling their hardware to cheap so they wont make much from hardware. if they are profitting its probably xbox live mainly

i never said they didn't profit from something else , any way, their entertaiment division it living off windows/office sales.