Good results for MS.

Pretty good numbers.  I don't see how anyone can spin this into the negative.  But as usual its the same 6 or 7 spin doctors that do.

Can't wait to see what Kinect does for pushing consoles.  It should cause the 360 to have its biggest year to date.  And thats nice for a system as old as the 360 is.

well, yeah, i m not fair with MS

but, really, the only thing that function (understand = big cash cow) is their "automatic" window7 update

they can thx god Gates secured the market so well 20 years ago ....

if u take away the "Window7 profit", then MS is really not that big

ALSO, for what I get, their 1/3 ratio profit/revenues is insanely HIGH

this show how their are selling us low cost product for big price (automatic WINDOW license anyone ?)

Why oh why did you even need to go there?  If you took a look at the current sales data given out by both Sony and Microsoft, you would see that Microsofts EDD division (xbox 360 division) profited more than that of the entire Sony corporation.

So basically your entire post is a failure. /facepalm 

Microsofts EDD division (xbox division) 382 million in profits.   Sony's profits for the entire company 375 million......

Microsofts profit for the entire company was insane @ 5.41 billion.....

Sweet to see MS making that much profit.

MS 5,41b

Sony 375m

Nintendo -25m

I love it!

MS is HUGE!!!!!!

Yep, I have to agree there. I was thinking the same thing and would have said so had you not already done it. Anyway EDD was nearly 5* Sony networked which is what is really going to determine the level of investment within each division relatively. This is the reason why Sony is rumoured to be making a PSP phone based off Android platform whilst Microsoft is making a platform of its own, Windows Mobile 7.

I dont see anything in your post related to my own post

Overall, whatever how u want to turn it, the EDD division profit is RIDICULUS compared to the total MS profit. The EDD division is far from being their cash cow. Particularly if you take in count all the money lost with the Xbox1.

At the end, this confirm what I was saying : MS can THX their Window ...

come on. It is not like MS was THE operating system (software) distributor all over the planete while Sony has always been more dedicated to create hardware

"if u take away the "Window7 profit", then MS is really not that big"

I was pointing out that even if you took away windows 7 and the rest of MS that the EDD division made more money than all of Sony.  So if they aren't that big then I guess Sony is even smaller.

What does the percentages of the EDD have to do with it?  You stated that xbox 1 lost a shit ton of money, well so has the PS3, probably more so than the xbox 1.  So there really is no need in pointing that out unless you want to see the flaws that the PS3 has had as well.  After all all the profits the PS2 had made was eaten up by the PS3.

Besides, I would imagine that before the end of this gen, MS will have turned a profit over all.  (MS didn't care how much money they lost with the original Xbox, they were just getting their feet in the door to the gaming world.  And I figure that by the time the next box comes out it will be even more profitable than it is now.)