Analyst: Xbox "generates" $2 billion in losses for MS. Hides it with patent royalties

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drkohler said:

Seece said:

Then why did the Sony Gaming division only lose a paltry amount?

Give over. This is total BS. Not even 360 and Xbox lost this amount in R&D, nowhere near. Neither of them had 360 hardware, software and LIVE backing up profits either.

Last quarter, Sony lost $8M, MS lost $15M within their gaming units. We can argue all day what makes money or not within each group. One thing is VERY clear, however: XBox R&D, prototyping, softwre development was/is MUCH, MUCH higher than the corresponding PS4 parts.

MS doesn't have a gaming/EDD anymore, it's all their devices in one. It's not even worth mentioning anymore for discussion on how well xbox is doing in profit/revenue. Which is a real shame.