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theprof00 on 22 April 2010
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heruamon said:
theprof00 said:
matt247 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.

R&D

but think of this too. Just on the number of games (27M) they make nearly 450M. First party games make much more than that, and 360 revenue must be pretty high too. Probably around 25-50$ per Elite and maybe 5$ per arcade.

That's a lot of R&D money, especially considering that they didn't invent Natal, some other company did.

LOL...these results must be painful for you to watch.

@ Seece

Yeah...I just saw the shift to 6 July...day before my b-day!...WOOT!

Why would you say that? Because you think I'm a fanboy? Maybe you confuse substantiated arguments with fanboy gibberish. I'm biased toward Sony, yes, but only because I think they have the best console. I am also biased toward the DS, which I think is the best all-around console of all time. I wrote just two days ago that 360 is a great product, and had they not gotten under my skin with the original xbox and my RROD I would still be playing it (because it's a great product). So chill. If you look calmly at my posts and the responses to them, instead of breaking out the hot tar and raising the drawbridge, you would see that someone posted a segment of almost 800M$ worth of "unearned revenue", which I'm sure consists mainly of xbox live subscriptions that haven't reached maturation.

So look at that. I asked a question and got an amazing answer that you yourself might not have even known. 360 probably has another 800M$ worth of profit that isn't categorized yet.

I have faith that next gen, MS will really shine. This gen was just unlucky for them. That's not a fanboy quip, it's a fact.