Breaking: Xbox 360 Price Cut incoming

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Lingyis said:

ckmlb said:
People were talking about the billion dollars in repair costs being insignificant to MS, but really it's like 1/5 of MS' total yearly net income or 1/12 of their revenue down the drain. I mean they can take it but it's definitely not insignificant.

ahem, 1 billion is 1/5 of MS income last QUARTER. they make about $14 billion a year. probably $17-$18 billion this fiscal year with vista.

EDIT: 1 billion is significant no matter how you look at it. even if a company makes $100 bln profit 1 bln is still 1 bln. in 2007 anyway.

 That 14 billion is not net income that is revenue. So 1 billion dollars is 1/5 of their net income of in a year and 1/14 of their total revenue. In either case this is a big hit.