Disappearing Act: Xbox Sales Plummet While Microsoft's Other Devices Continue To Struggle. (With spacing)

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Smokingbum said:

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There is no victory. Only the knowledge that Xbox was profitable at a certain point in time, a claim to which you steadfastly refused to believe.

Citing Android royalties softening Xbox woes, I countered that a quarterly statement in July 2008 showed profitability when Android itself didn't exist until later in the year.

While you have every right to want Xbox One to fail and cite lack of profit for cause, what you cannot say however is that Xbox never made money, ever. Because I have shown that is not the case.

No it was not.....You simply don't understand what people mean when they say "It was neve rprofitable". The xbox original lost billions, what small profit 360 made a few years has not come close to ever making up for that, and the x1 is not going to come close to x1 sales. the division as a WHOLE is still a LONG ways in the red, a few quarters of 360 profit does not change that,

Actually that claim may be not as bad as many think. Because Xbox 360 was profitable since 2008 and likely stayed profitable until now. Xbox 1 losses are likely happening, but Xbox 360 has profited for 5 years now, especially since kinect came in 2010.

I am now curious, because while Xbox itself is still in the red, I wonder just how much the Xbox 360 profits have cut it down by. However,Microsoft and Sony have been lumping in their consoles with other products for years now so it is hard to be sure just how much.

All that aside, the user I was talking about didn't seem like he had your perspective. It sounded a lot like Xbox never made profit in any single year, not over the lifetime of the brand. Otherwise he would have specified that at some point.