sharky said:
Except it will next year.
You dont know the underlying facts. Xbox1 was never profitable because it cost too much to make because MS didn't own the IP, Intel and Nvidia did. With Xbox 360, MS does own the IP. That's going to have huge ramifications for costs in time. 360 hardware will not be a money sink like Xbox1 was.
All that is different with 360, and there's virtually no way they wont start making a profit soon. Hell, the amount of stuff they sell, games, downloads, accessories, it's hard for me to imagine they aren't profitable now. People buy Xbox like crazy. How much you think those $10 Gears maps packs just sold? A shitload. How many wireless controllers sell? A crapload. I saw they sold 800,000 of those wireless controllers last December I think when NPD released the accessory figures that month. |
I don't know the facts, good one 
(I'd use a laughing smiley if they had one but they don't). People buy the Xbox like crazy? I think before you start throwing accusations of "not knowing facts" around you should research that core fact. At any rate, we have little idea of what MS' profits are on anything individually. What we do know, to a greater if still imperfect extent, is what the 360's total losses are. MS has yet to show any improvement in their basic business model. Maybe they will next year, it is possible that micro-transacting the hell out of gamers wallets will make them profitable, but it's also possible that something happens that depresses profits (like continuing poor sales despite the big guns, or a Sony price cut, or greater than planned warranty costs on their shoddy product, etc.). However, until we can see the profits in quarterly earnings reports, MS execs bragging yet again about the eventual profitabilty of the 360 means nothing.
