I feel Like Microsoft Should Try to Focus on Places they arent performing well in a little more.

[Goatseye]

Aura7541 said:

Goatseye said:

MoHasanie said:

You are right, but its debatable that Xbox had the biggest online community. Xbox has never revealed how many Gold accounts there are, but it is rumored to be around 17 million. At its peak, it was supposedly 25 million. Online gaming on the PS3 was free and so it most likely that it had a larger online community.  

Yes, Xbox live subsriptions helped Xbox become profitable. In fact, overall, the 360 might have never even been profitable without xbox live revenue. 

Once MS said they had 40 million subs.

Xbox 360 could've been profitable without XBL. I said it on a previous post that, it had the highest game/console attach ratio on the last gen consoles.

Those subs included Silver, which were free of charge.

Then why were they included in their Quarterly report as "helping to grow Microsoft's second quarter financial earnings in the Xbox division by 15 percent from the previous quarter."?

Silvers don't help Xbox division sales revenue, so they were not included.