Squilliam on 10 May 2009
| EaglesEye379 said: Im really not sure what Lord N and Slimebeast want me to say. How about: 360 / PC made $3.5bn in revenue. This is out of $6.5bn. That means Zune + others made $3bn. 360 / PC cost $6bn. This is out of $6.2bn. That means it only costs $0.2bn to make Zune + others. So 360 / PC suxors. They lost MS a total of $2.5bn. Does that sound more reasonable then? I would like to hear what you two think to make up that $6.5bn revenue and $6.2bn costs. @Slimebeast, how could you believe Zune + others made $3bn in revenue? |
I think the reasonable points which can be made are:
Xbox 360 operations are 99% sure to be profitable.
This division bears the cost of advertising and retail deployment of Windows/Mac software but the revenue for sales of these go somewhere else. (Another cost in that hidden chunk)
The amounts people quote and attribute to Xbox 360/Xbox 1 losses are likely to be wrong.
Btw, do they have an obligation to round small figures like 1% or 2% to the nearest half % point so as to not deceive investors? Say 1.4% has to be rounded up to 1.5% rather than down to 1% and 1.23% has to be rounded down to 1%
Tease.
