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drkohler on 27 January 2011
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thx1139 said:
justinian said:


Thanks for pointing that out because so many here seem to think that EDD is just the xbox. Wake up.

The EDD profit IS NOT XBOX360 PROFIT. The EDD consist of PC games and online services,  Office, Windows Mobile and a whole lot of other stuff.

We have no idea of how much the x360 (and related items like kinect)  made on it's own and MS didn't say.

Great quarter result for MS regardless.

 

 

Wrong.

EDD consists of Xbox business in its entirety which includes Xbox Live. Other online services is in the online services division.

EDD consists of Windows Mobile which loses money (even before iPhone, Windows Mobile only had 1 profitable year)

EDD consists of the Marketing and Sales related expenses for retails sales of Office, Windows, etc.

EDD consists of other incubator products (not profitable) such as Microsoft Surface.

Look, the breakdown of the EDD division has been given multiple times (basically whenever a cluessless post like yours had shown up). Instead of typing complete nonsense, why don't you do the reasearch? Start with MS' own previous report which explicitly accompanied a mention that almost all parts of the EDD division were profitable...

Nobody questions the fact that the XBox part contributes to the overall profit of the division (mainly online revenues), however attributing it all to a single console is a but naive (and the fact that MS never gives the actual breakdown should give you a small hint).