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NYANKS on 27 January 2011
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heruamon said:
NYANKS said:
Darth Tigris said:
Seece said:

Fun stats:

E&D division profit more this Q than it did for the entire of last fiscal year, massive gains.

MS has broken the $ 1 billion profit mark with only TWO Q's. The PS division has never posted higher than $950 million in any fiscal year since it began in 1995.

Lots of variables there, but it goes to show, MS E&D business model is one that is akin to a market leader.


That's ... profound.

I wonder what percentage of the profit comes from the online charge, that would be a pretty big variable.

Also, isn't the Playstation division only...playstation?  What does E&D contain?

There is no playstation division...they are all under SCE, which is more than just PS brand.  As for EDD, it has WP7, Zune, and other devices included, to included the Xbox folks ofcourse. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Product_Divisions

Xbox is driving this division...no question about it, and it's probably accounting for 80-90% of profits.  Regardless, people had no problem lumping it all together, when the division was losing money on alot of different things, all onto Xbox...

So what is Seecereferring to when he says a PS division, starting in 95?  I never thought that was a good idea, if only because I like the transparency.  I'm sure it's doing most of the heavy lifting, I just wish we knew how much.  And again, I'm curious as to how much of the large numbers are from online charges.  Has anyone attempted to estimate on the site?