XBOX 360 profitability - an analysis

[Lord N]

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?

 

All you're doing here is proving my original point, which is that you can't tie profits or losses to any specific product in the E&D division.

Look, for all of the oversimplifying you've done, what you've got here is a whole lot of nothing. Not only is there the above, but there's the fact that you keep using scant and circumstantial evidence such as revenue to try to make your case. You stated yourself that the E&D division's profits were $299 million, which means that that in order for the 360 to have been profitable, those other products and services would have had to lose greater than 1.5 times as much money as the Xbox 360 did, but in less than 1/4 the time. Suffice to say that this is a little far-fetched, and that's being nice.

Like it or not, you can't prove which products lost or made money(revenue doesn't count) with any degree of certainty, so you don't have any conclusive evidence to make your point, so you fail on that alone.