X1 available for $350 in the US this holiday season & $50 slashed off every bundle (starts Nov 2nd)

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Euphoria14 said:

JamaicameCRAZY said:

kowenicki said:

Can you show me where their recent results have been "dragged down"?

You dont know what you are talking about.

Stop just repeating the same old mantra you have read elsewhere.  Its old, its wrong and its boring.

All the manufacturers have investors.  All the manufacturers have sufferend heavy losses at one time or another.  Its business.  Right now, the xbox gaming part of the devices division isnt dragging anything down.  Which you would know if you cared to investigate rather than regurgitate the same old nonsense.

So if the division is healthy and there isnt any problems then why do we have articles like this going around?

 

http://www.forbes.com/sites/adamhartung/2014/02/18/microsoft-should-give-xbox-one-to-nintendo/

 

Fact is the divisions isnt as strong as the rest of their divisions. Its not showing the growth that are keeping investors happy. Now its not losing money but its absolutely below the profits of other divisions soan arguement can absolutely be made that its dragging things down. Which is why there is people talking about xbox getting sold off. You get talk like that about healthy companies if the division isnt having some problems. 

Ooo, you went and used a Forbes "contributor" as your source. Expect quite the response.

I have plenty of links. ;) 

http://www.eteknix.com/microsoft-investor-wants-to-fire-ballmer-and-sell-xbox-division/

http://www.theverge.com/2014/5/6/5686380/bill-gates-comments-on-potential-microsoft-xbox-sale

http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2014/08/25/should-microsoft-sell-xbox-entertainment-studios.aspx

last link is a pretty good read. 

 

"Xbox Entertainment Studios doesn't fit into the One Windows philosophy either -- it's simply an extension of the Xbox business that makes the struggling segment even more top heavy. The Xbox division generated $8.6 billion in revenue in fiscal 2014, a 22% increase from 2013, but it's unclear how much money the business actually loses. Nomura Securities analyst Rick Sherlund suggested last November that Microsoft actually loses around $2 billion annually on the Xbox, but the losses are hidden behind patent royalties from Android devices.

An IHS iSuppli teardown revealed that the Xbox One, minus the Kinect, costs about $396 to manufacture. This means Microsoft takes big losses with new bundles, like the $400 Sunset Overdrive bundle which will arrive on October 28. Microsoft needs to sell more consoles to recoup those losses with its cut of software revenue."