XBOX 360 profitability - an analysis

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@Lord N

The profit was a loss of $31m this quarter. Over the last 9 months it was $299m. Whats your point?

The point of the OP is that gaming/360 related revenue seems to make a larger percentage than gaming/360 related costs. But you dont like this idea.



@Slimebeast

Yes its a big mystery thats why you take what you can get. Total EDD = $6.5bn as published no questions asked right?

So here is what EDD provides:

Entertainment and Devices Division (“EDD”) offerings include the Xbox 360 platform (which includes the Microsoft Xbox 360 video game console system, Xbox 360 video games, Xbox Live, and Xbox 360 accessories), the Zune digital music and entertainment platform, PC software games, online games and services, Mediaroom (our Internet protocol television software), the Surface computing platform, mobile and embedded device platforms, and other devices. EDD leads the development efforts for our line of consumer software and hardware products including application software for Apple’s Macintosh computers and Microsoft PC hardware products, and is responsible for all retail sales and marketing for Microsoft Office and the Windows operating systems.

To summarise:
- Xbox 360 (all aspects)
- Zune (yea sure this is a cash cow)
- PC games
- Mediaroom (dont even know what this is)
- Surface (yea sure this is a cash cow)
- Windows Mobile
- Mac and PC apps (I didnt know about this which proves that development costs go into non-gaming)
- Sales and Marketing of Office and Windows (I didnt know this but proves that more costs are related to non-gaming)

Is it really that hard to believe that Zune, Mediaroom, Surface, Windows Mobile, Mac and PC apps made $1.5bn in revenue and Xbox 360, PC gaming made $5bn in revenue?


@WiiStation360

Good point. But the costs dont deviate that much. The revenue does although we know it cant go above $6.5bn. If it goes as low as $3.4bn then its saying Zune, Windows Mobile etc. made $3bn. I know which sounds more reasonable to me.