Former Xbox Head: orginal xbox lost between 5B and 7B dollars.

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endimion said:

thismeintiel said:
I think we already knew this. Though, the 360 didn't make them billions. It made them lose money the 1st year or two. They may have broke even on the 360 by now, but it definitely didn't net them a profit of billions, overall. And given how the XBO is performing, I doubt they'll ever make a profit on the Xbox venture, as a whole. That's really the reason investors were so vocal about them just dropping it earlier this gen.

XBL alone is a gold mine between sales revenue and advertising revenue... They more than likely covered XBOG 360 and are well set on the one looking at current numbers... XBox no matter how people want to shake it is a financial success so far for MS and will probably only get better and gain ground with time expending on different platform

Xbox live revenue is not as much of 'gold mine' as you think. Xbox live revenue has always been included in their earnings statements. Fact is that Microsoft lost over 7 billion on the Xbox and they lost around 3 billion on the Xbox 360. Bringing the total to 11 Billion lost, while Sony lost over 5 billion on the PS3 alone. For the Xbox One they have already posted some losses. This does not paint a picture of 'financial success'.

and that investor rumor has to stop... There were one venture capital that is not even a top five shareholder with low influence and low key interest that wanted to split it... It's like taking seriously Kanye wanting to be president or god or whatever the fuck he wants to be these days... Nobody listen to them....

There were in fact many key investors and board members that expressed concern over Xbox's losses including their current CEO. This was widly reported apon and is not a rumor.

I don't see anybody talking about Sony number one shareholder openly and repeatedly wanting to split Sony in multiple division in particular the entertainment division from the hardware division taking him seriously.... And he has like god all mighty powers in comparaison to the less than 1%ter shareholder that remotely voiced maybe twice in the past the wish to split the XB division from MS...

The above text is hardly true at all. The number one shareholder of Sony stock is Citibank. They never suggested Sony split up in multiple divisions.