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

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Aprisaiden said:

famousringo said:
All this talk of how much MS has lost or earned on the Xbox brand is severely clouded by the fact that its game division is rolled in with a lot of other products. Zune, peripherals, I can't even keep track of all the things that prevent me from keeping track of Xbox financials. :P

Well i think its fair to say the Zune and Microsoft Game Studio's(PC-wise) and 1st party 360 peripherals are proberly profitable. Im sure that if those products were moved to their own division the profit/loss for 360 would be rather simaliar to now... I think the main reason Microsoft keeps all those products lumped together is for revenue reasons. How could 360 compete with Wii+DS or PS3+PS2+PSP revenue-wise.

Actually a fair few retailers are dropping Zune due to lackluster sales. I wouldn't be surprised if it is LOSING money.

But I agree Microsoft probably makes a little money off game PC games, but overwhelmingly only due to games that are made due to the surity of sales on the 360.