Is MS's total investment in the 360, in the black?

[TheRealMafoo]

TheBigFatJ said:

TheRealMafoo said:
I don't count the first XBox. That we should just write off as a loss, and start over.

If you feel you need to include previous gaming revenue, you would have to include PC gaming as well, and if you did that, they would already be out of the red, by tens of billions.

So the answer is 1.5 billion. Thanks :)

MS hasn't made that much in PC gaming.  They don't get revenues for all windows released games, just their own.  If you include PC gaming, MS is still in the red almost certainly.

Yes, of course you include the original Xbox.  MS does -- they promised this generation would bring profit to the xbox division from the beginning.  By itself, the 360 will probably never generate a profit overall, though.

 

Not to turn this into a Mac vs PC thread, but if you take gaming out of the equation, there is not a single reason to buy a PC over a Mac. Linux is not a bad solution either, if you can live with old versions of Office.

One of the things that keeps the PC industry where it is, is gaming. I just spent $750 on a new Gaming PC, and installed Vista. Apple does not have an alternative for me (as I type this on my Mac Book Pro).

It's hard to quantify how much gaming has meant to Microsoft, but it's a lot.