MICROSOFT FY16 Q3 RESULTS: Rev $20.5bn. Op Income $5.3bn. Net Profit $3.8bn

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hhehhe said:

Nautilus said:
Hope they finally reveal some XOne numbers, instead of the "were doing just fine, thank you!"

they will always reveal some xbox numbers.  just not the numbers, consolewarrior want for theire fight. and that's a good thing.
beside fanboys and pr statements, no1 cares about absolute unit sales numbers anymore in the industry.
 ea, activsion and ubisoft didn't stop to give out numbers because they were bad. they stopped, because it's not gen 6 anymore.
selling a copy and be forgotten does not make you money in the long term.

Xbox hardware revenue decreased 9%, mainly due to a decline in Xbox 360 console volume.
Xbox One revenue decreased slightly, due to higher console volume, offset by lower prices of consoles sold. 

Come on, unit sales certainly matters, in fact much more so than revenue volume, where reduced part costs is irrelevant to MS profit.
Unit sales translate into Live subscriptions (and discrepancies are relevant to note, good and bad), as well as software sales (likewise).
Some of that info is translatable into future profit forecasts, but solid info on current real sales is 100% relevant for corporate report,
i.e. changes in attach rates of Live, in Live revenue per account, in software sales conventional and digital, in accessory sales, etc...
Without unit sales than you are missing a major part of the picture, both on areas where they fall short, and where they are doing good.