Anyone calling this a "victory" for MS is being patently disingenuous. MS is a corporation with many divisions, just like Sony. MS' Xbox division is losing money. Sony's mobile devices division is losing money. What did Sony do to mitigate the loss? Scaled back and winded down the losing division, as any corporation would. The math in the article is overly simplistic and overlooks the lost game and incentive profits that came with the discounted holiday bundles (some as low as 329.99), so I would expect the losses to be greater than the ballpark ~63MM. People also seem to be glossing over how this translates into market share, where your cap is calculated by a 5-15X multiple and puts this loss in the 300MM-1B range (probably closer to the mid-point) for the MONTH. I'm a director of one company and CEO of another; if a division head produced those losses, I would have his head. I think we all need to calm down with the who won November bit.
Sony fans, please do not use this as MS is DOOMED fodder. You're probably using Windows to read this.
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