Seece said:
Here is a handy chart I made earlier.
I believe it's accurate ...
The purple is the timeframe when the 360 was out and losing money, the latter green is since 360 has been making money (yes since 2007!) the green at the top is original Xbox and all losses.
So since the 360 the E&D Division stands at about 1.449 billion to go before 360 is profitable.
The thing to note here though is that products come alone like the Kin (previous Q? or one before) and kill any profit. BUT the division is mostly made up of 360/Live.
Over the coming months with the revisions to the 360, Live price increase, Kinect (making a profit) and SW, the E&D division should make a killing, I estimate the 360 and E&D division to break even (since 360 launch) by calender year Q1 2012. Perhaps much sooner though tbh.
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Since we don't know how much the rest of the EDD was losing, we can't be sure how close to lifetime breakeven they are, but it is certainly possible that they have passed that point already.
