Official Microsoft Earnings Results for Q3 2010

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Shorty11857 said:

theprof00 said:

So I did some math on xboxlive numbers, and if 20M people subscribe to xboxlive and pay 9$ a month, they should be making 540M in a quarter. Of course lots of people just pay per year, not per month, but even so, subtracting the 165M profit this quarter gives us 380M to take away from my math.
WHat the hell does MS spend all its money on?!?!?

 

I guess a better question is, what the hell is dragging down EDD so much.

$9 a month? I'd say they make more like an average of $50 a year which would be $250 million a quarter

Like I said, even if they only made 165M a quarter, where is the profit from licensing, hardware sales, and game sales?

EDIT: correction, monthly rate is 8, not 9. But yes, I know that most people buy yearly subs.