psrock said:
It could just me not doing my research, but based on the big fans in this site, I was expecting huge numbers for the Xbox division. Some of us were talking about billions if I remember correctly. And, yes, the 360 is slightly overtracked. |
VGC: 1.4 million sold
MS: 1.5 million shipped
So MS build up stock according to VGC.
and you can be sure that Xbox 360 made a billion USD profit this year. Zune, Kin and Windows Mobile killed it though. Q1 2011 will be big and Q2 2011 will be huge.
That was the quarter for the slowest time of the year and they sold 500k consoles per month. Being up YoY without a pricecut is not bad. There was no big software release. Alan Wake did not sell as good as it deserved and that's about it for MGS in the past 3 months. RDR, Splinter Cell sold well, but these games are 3rd party and ms just gets a small fee.
Next quarter they will release Halo Reach and every single cent will go to MS. And the slim sales will be included. So if the Xbox 360S is profitable, which is just logical, because the PS3 is, we will see a great quarter for them. Even though we have to see what The Xbox 360 4GB will do.
The quarter after (Q2 2011) we will see the release of Fable III and Kinect plus 4 first party Kinect games. Molyneux estimated Fable III to make a 150 million profit (lifetime). MS estimated a 15% growth of revenue. With much lower costs of revenue, because Kin is finally gone, they will profit big time.
Just compare fiscal year 2010 with fiscal year 2011.
"Big" 1st party (MS = publisher) software titles
2010:
- Forza Motorsport 3 (3 million)
- Halo ODST (6 million)
- Alan Wake (<1 million)
- Halo Wars (2 million)
2011:
- Halo Reach (10 million)
- Fable III (5 million)
- Gears of War 3 (6 million)
- Crackdown 2 (1 million)
- Kinect titles (everybodys guess)
Hardware:
2010
- nothing
2011
- Kinect
- Slim consoles
2010 = 680 million profit
2011 = ???
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In a word: This quarter was ruined by Kin, next year will be awesome.
Imagine not having GamePass on your console...
