Jumpin on 17 May 2010
| Recon1O1 said: No. Even very slow adoption of their motion control gamble won't put EDD into the red. They can afford a reduction in profit. They threw $100m at Bing like we use spare change. After paying $4B last gen to get into the business and $1B+ this gen to stay in, it seems unlikely they will quit while earning roughly $1B/yr in profit. Their near monopoly of OS is a thing of the past and the vg business has the potential to earn them $3B/yr next gen. That would be a tenth of net profit on last fy fiscal if I remember correctly. Hopefully they will learn from past mistakes. Xbl is a growing resource stream and an incentive to stay imo. Why chop that money tree? |
Where are you getting these numbers? Based on Microsoft's own numbers, they're over 9 billion in the hole since the launch of the original Xbox and only have one year where they actually turned a profit on the Xbox brand, and it was 267M, not 1B.
http://www.microsoft.com/msft/SEC/default.mspx
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