Microsoft will make a net profit on the Xbox brand before the 360 is done?

[Final-Fan]

Squilliam said:

Final-Fan said:

Squilliam said:

Final-Fan said:

Squilliam said:
Updated! Btw, I'm not saying that the Xbox 360 will pull $6B+ profit in those 4 years, what im saying is that if it can cut the losses down to around 1.5-2B $ that the tail of the system with Live revenues etc will take it over the $6B mark without the aid of the nextboxes revenues.

But are you sure it won't start out as a loss leader?  That would be another factor against the 360 making the "Xbox brand" positive before it gets retired.

Im not sure exactly what they will do with the Xbox next... The technologies/architecture is a big unknown so really we don't know how much profit/loss they will make or how much they will charge for it.

However with the Xbox 360 console sitting at between 2.4 Billion in losses, between the financial results in this quarter and the next we could see the console sitting somewhere under 2B in losses with 4 years left on the clock as the main console. So the question of whether or not the 360 will make a profit has almost been answered and the real question now: 'is how much profit will it make?'

The answer is only clear because you've apparently changed the question:  the figures in that post ask "Will the 360 turn a cumulative profit?" instead of the OP question "Will the 360 make the Xbox family turn a cumulative profit in its lifetime?"

Actually, come to think of it, how did you even arrive at that $2.4 billion figure?

($3B) + $600M profit! To arrive at that ($2.4B figure). That doesn't include the profit/loss of the coming financial update.

I consider the question of whether or not the Xbox 360 will turn a profit to have been answered already really... With 4 good strong years plus what looks to be a very good tail, the question for me turns to whether or not the Xbox 360 will bring the entire system to profitability if one considers the sheer quantity of revenue Xbox Live brings along with the increased royalties over the previous generation.

  I think you forgot that 2005 exists.  

 -485,000,000 + -1,262,000,000 + -1,892,000,000 = -3,639,000,000