Daily Finance: Why MicroSoft Will Never Be Great Again

[vlad321]

Seece said:

vlad321 said:

Seece said:

I am aware, and you can dampen it all you like 1.3B is not 'barely profitable' it's more than Sony have ever achieved with the Playstation division since its inception. To put it in perspective.

Why are you so focused about Sony? Sony isn't even relevant when it comes to Microsoft. As far as Microsoft's profits go, the Xbox is basically insignificant and arugably pointless (and possibly harmful given how they decided to fuck a core audience of Windows to barely turn a profit).

Because Sony and Nintendo should be their benchmark, it's stupid to expect MS to achieve gigantic profits akin to the Windows division in other areas, if all the smaller divisions make a profit, it's a good thing. And you can belittle the xbox division all you like, and yes it's small (not insignificant) to their main profits, but it's not barely profitable, to call a division making 1.3B in a year barely profitable is just stupid.

Again, why exactly are Sony and Nintendo the benchmarks? Maybe if they were producing only the Xbox then yeah they would be, however Microsoft is bigger than that. When you look at Microsoft the Xbox division is 6%. That's just above a 20th of the profits, and calling it anything other than barely significant is pretty ignorant and dumb. Furthermore, as I already posed the question, I wonder how much profit Microsoft had to siphon off of their Windows division (the one that counts) to get the Xbox to this level. I wouldn't be surprised if the Xbox has actually hurt them more than help them, given that gamers are usually the staunchest defenders of Windows vs Apple or Linux.