thx1139 said:
Of course there were R&D costs. Yet this chart paints the picture that the R&D costs were nearly $3Billion. Yeah right for as someone else has already said for off the shelf components. Not to mention the chart according to its own sources has wrong numbers. 2008 according to source $426 million profit. Chart $267 million profit. Doesnt have 2009 $169 million profit nor reflect the reports on the Microsoft official investors site. |
I agree on the R&D side of things.... it's nice to see the past numbers in addition, but the 2000 figures and probably the majority of 2001 numbers can be ignored for the X360 side of things.
Regarding the differences.... actually I checked them all.... the profit loss figures are clearly edited after the initial release, which means presumably being more accurate.... liquidninja has got all the latest figures for each year he could up to FY2008.
Here is the info from the FY2008 report:
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Entertainment and Devices Division |
267 | (2,016 | ) | (1,329 | ) |
The number on the right (1,329) is for 2006.... but when the 2006 report came out it had (1,283)
Microsoft explains why this is:
Because of our integrated business structure, operating costs included in one segment may benefit other segments, and therefore these segments are not designed to measure operating income or loss directly related to the products included in each segment. Inter-segment cost commissions are estimated by management and used to compensate or charge each segment for such shared costs and to incent shared efforts. Management will continually evaluate the alignment of product development organizations, sales organizations, and inter-segment commissions for segment reporting purposes, which may result in changes to segment allocations in future periods.
All the figures in ninjas chart are the most up to date (so 2006 figures taken from 2008 report rather than 2006 report.)
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Entertainment and Devices Division |
267 | (2,016 | ) | (1,329 | ) |
