Former MS executive: Microsoft doesn't make very much on videogames

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This is from the same guy:

Microsoft wanted to buy Sega at one point, according to former Microsoft exec and this week’s chief bean-spiller Joachim Kempin. Bill Gates clubbed the idea to death after he deemed that Sega lacked ‘muscle’ to help it defeat Sony in the console arms race.

http://www.vg247.com/2013/02/08/former-microsoft-exec-reveals-failed-sega-acquisition-blames-lack-of-muscle/