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fatslob-:O on 15 October 2013
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J_Allard said:
fatslob-:O said:

@Bold They haven't broke even yet.

You can clearly see this so no questions about it. 

The xbone is looking more and more likely to sell less the xbox 360 so I don't see the xbox divison going in an upward trend and that looks like the current reality.  

#1 there is no "microsoft gaming division". There is the E&D division, where they also put tons of losses from other products.
#2 what something does or does not sell compared to its predecessor is irrelevant in terms of profit. The GCN, as your article references and confirms, was profitable even though it finished "last".
#3 there is no indication that the Xbone will sell less than the 360.

I read what was posted in the OP and idk, just doesn't make much sense to me. Authors puts way too much emphasis on sales. Nintendo has competed for generations selling less hardware because they are profitable. Sony has competed for generations losing money upfront on hardware but making it back later. The PS3 was a disaster for them profit wise, market share wise, pretty much in every regard. But are we to believe they had a better generation than MS simply because they pushed 1 million more consoles? Please.

#1 You do realize that their entertainment divison is mostly composed of xbox ?

#2. So microsoft can keep making more failures and go out of the video game business ? (They can't just keep taking losses after losses y'know.) BTW the GCN was an awful console and the mass market responded accordingly by not buying the console. 

#3. Oh but their absolutely is such as the xbone outpricing themselves in this economy. LOL

Sales are sales and they tell what the mass market wants and the mass market points to nintendo this generation and most most probably playstation for next generation. BTW nintendo kept afloat by monopolizing the handheld market. We all know that sony wasn't good at this generation but will microsoft be better at next generation ?