microspot on 24 April 2015
| JRPGfan said: Its just a google of manufactureing costs. Maybe its old, but its the only cost analysts of its manufactureing I could find with a quick google of it. Maybe things are better now, cost wise (probably). I still dont think Xbox is sold at a profit at 349$ though. |
all we know for sure is Xbox Division (including hardware, accessories, gold subscription and third party royalty) is profitable since a long long time ago
last time they had a negative gross margin was FY Q4-13 with -647 and that included a 900 million writedown for Surface RT inventory.
Without that it would have been profitable ofc.
And you also have to take into account, that the Surface is only profitable since FY Q1-15, 3 quarter ago.
Before, Xbox was able to offset negative Surface gross margin and even made some decent profits.
Surface was fist introduced FY Q2-12. And before that, the D&C Hardware Divison was called Entertainment and Device Division(mainly Xbox)
