He's right - the EDD department profits like $500m - $1b a year now. Off the top of my head we know just from Xbox stuff it has this much revenue in good years now:
15m * $200 for consoles after retailers get their cut - $3b in revenue
20m * $40 for Microsoft games after discounts and retailers get their cut - $800m
Accessories (Kinect, Controllers) - $300m?
130m * $8 - Royalties on non-Microsoft games - $1.04b / $1040m
Live revenue / XBLA royatlies / DLC Royalties / game advertisements - $500m
I'm being generous on some of this stuff - hw & sw is way down from these levels now - but it comes out to $5.6b in Xbox revenue in a good year, with typically less than $1b in profit. It's a lot of work for a small of amount of money to Microsoft.
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