Microsoft made a profit again!

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elnino334 said:

TheBigFatJ said:

WiiStation360 said:

Think of the $1B RROD charge for MS like a $1B charge for PS3 Cell/hardware R&D. They take a one time charge and do not average it out over the life of the console.

 

 

But Sony isn't doing Cell/hardware R&D for the PS3 anymore, so it wouldn't make sense to amortize that cost, since they didn't have to charge it back anyhow (it cost as they did it).  Microsoft is still repairing tons of Xbox 360s all of the time. And they're still selling Xbox 360s that break/rrod. 

The reason they charged it back, specifiically, was so they could start reporting profits to placate investors.

Do you have a link for that statement? rrod has been a non issue for a while though yes you will still have older ones break like some guy posted recently he had a 2 year old 360.  MS went on record saying they messed up but that they resolved their issues and that was months ago.  Seriously do you have numbers?links? or anything to backup that statement besides pulling it out of your butt? Yes some 360's may break but it should be more in the 3-5% acceptable rate now then it was before.  Stop beating a dead horse unless you can come up with solid evidence that it is is still an issue.

I won't argue MSs profit

But 3-5% failure rate, I definitely would argue.  

Link?