Daily Finance: Why MicroSoft Will Never Be Great Again

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Seece said:

vlad321 said:

Seece said:

Things are looking better on the gaming front, but Microsoft is barely profitable there despite selling a ton of Xbox 360 consoles and Kinect controllers and collecting juicy software royalties.


Barely Profitable? .... they did what, 22B in profit last year (something like that) Xbox division contribuited 1.3 bill to that, not a massive chunk no, but leaps and bounds ahead of years ago, ahead of Ninty and Sony's divisions, and certainly not barely ... bias and anti article.

I hope you realize what a tiny percentage 1.3 is of 22. It's just barely above 5% and that's pretty laughable.

OT: I am curious whether it was a nice idea of Microsoft to try to push off their barely profitable Xbox in terms of gaming at the cost of their PC (Windows) division. Considering the gamers were some of their core upholding pillars, it may have jsut come back to bite them in the ass hardcore.

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.

I notice you said "ahead of nintendo" Nintendo has really never made 1.3 B? MS made more than nintendo? I find this all very implausible.