NJ5 on 26 January 2009
| mrstickball said: Why'd E&D make less profit this Christmas vs. last Christmas? Halo 3. 'Ya know it *did* ship around 3-4 million copies in the same time period last year vs. MS's 1st party offerings this year that were slightly less than stellar (from a 1st party profit standpoint). |
Actually it was mostly because of increased R&D spending in Windows Mobile according to Microsoft:
http://www.vgchartz.com/forum/thread.php?id=58069
If you eliminate this increase in R&D, they actually made more profit than last year. Even more so if you add Zune's lost revenue.
As for the lack of first parties, Microsoft more than makes up for that by buying exclusives from third parties.
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