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DonFerrari said: 1) Goes in the department, we don't know how much profit was made since we don't know the costs. Also we don't know how much of the subs revenue was eaten by other costs on the department (even if subsiding the HW that is what is needed to sell the subs, that is basically cost of making business) 2) I don't know, do you? But they release the P&L of the company right? How many major departments are there? And what does it have to do with this discussion? 3) Who said it is ok? It is just out of topic, or do you want to enumerate every company that do or don't? 4) Please provide source X360 was more profitable. Because we do have the numbers for Playstation department and even if not having exact numbers for profit or loss of PS3 we can get a good enough estimative, compared to Xbox never disclosed numbers. 5) Pointless question since you were already proved that the subs are related to the HW sold. But please provide how many of the 30M XBL subs are gold. Your points are all your own assumptions without any evidence used to defend MS not releasing their numbers and them you use the lack of numbers to affirm it is good. Funny enough Ludicrous Speed have no issue with that. The funny thing is you keep asking questions and demanding sources, but fail to answer. Is that a tactic to deviate? |
So you are saying that the paid memberships didn't profit Xbox and MS? Even posting a link from Forbes which I will do again for you.
The reason I use Blizzard as a prime example here is because even if you are a brand that makes a boat load of money, they don't have to announce it to the world, in this case, Subscriptions which both Blizzard and MS do and have the same method in not telling the world.
Its pretty obvious the 360 was more profitable. Lets start with these examples.
1) X360 was cheaper to produce and in RnD.
PS3 cost $805 to build compared to the 360s $470.
2) X360 sold more life time SW and digital content.
Software PS3 - 974.58m / X360 - 1,007,71m
Tie Ratio PS3 - 11.21 / X360 - 11.74
3) X360 had 7+ years of paid up members of free cash flow. PS3 had no income from other alternatives for there console.
4) $1.25b estimated from Fordes annually is a crap ton of money to not only cover the 360s RnD costs estimated to be at 3.5b but also the Red Ring of Death costs estimated at $1.5b. 10+ years of paid members has easily covered these expenses and we don't need MS to tell us this. Much like we don't need Blizzard to tell us there making money on World of Warcraft. Obvious is obvious.
5) Your Logic - PS3 HW sold 86.90m Units - X360 HW sold 85.80m Units. Guess PS3 wins and made more money because of HW sales. #DonFerrari
Tell me how you think the PS3 made more profit than the 360? I am very curious. Do you actually think PS3 made more money and is more successful because it sold more HW?
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