| mutantsushi said: Now more than ever Microsoft needs to transparently publish the real numbers for the Xbox business. |
One of the things I've hated for years about Microsoft is that they don't report real numbers for Xbox's division. Profit and expenses are bundled with the Moore Personal Computing segment. Microsoft has played loose with numbers for years. They rolled regular XBL subscribers into Gamepass in order to hide Gamepass losing subscribers. They didn't count game dev costs as Gamepass costs for 1st party games. Who knows if they even count Gamepass servers as an expense? Meanwhile, if someone tries a game on Gamepass and then goes on to buy said game, Gamepass gets credit for the full sale of the game. None of this makes sense and its clear that Gamepass doesn't make money. At least not long term.
Sony and Nintendo are primarily videogame companies so it's easy to see if their gaming departments are profitable or not based on their PNL sheets. Xbox on the other hand gets lumped in with a massive Personal Computing Division so profits are hard to discern.
