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Seece on 27 January 2011
Shorty11857 said:
Seece said:
kowenicki said:

seece.... its about profit.

I honestly think ms will be happy wherever the 360 finishes now.

Saying that a price cut this year is a certainty and a very aggressive holiday in 2011.

Profits are good yes



The $4,966 figure is loss obviously.

I really think it should always be stated that this isn't just the xbox division, with everything else they have in  this division we have no real way to know how much the 360 has lost

 

Great results for microsoft though, best quarter ever

You meant profited. The majority of items in this division havd been underperfoming and massive drains, not to mention it was solely Xbox division until a  few years ago.



 

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Carl on 27 January 2011

Those are excellent results.



                            

Acevil on 27 January 2011
Seece said:
ethomaz said:

Is 6.3m or 7.1m??? 7.1m sound way better.


It's 6.3 don't act like you want it to be 7.1


"I hope" it would be higher! :p



 

Seece on 27 January 2011

Fun stats:

E&D division profit more this Q than it did for the entire of last fiscal year, massive gains.

MS has broken the $ 1 billion profit mark with only TWO Q's. The PS division has never posted higher than $950 million in any fiscal year since it began in 1995.

Lots of variables there, but it goes to show, MS E&D business model is one that is akin to a market leader.



 

thx1139 on 27 January 2011
ElGranCabeza said:

Those are some great numbers for MS but whoever suggested that WM7 is a drain in the division is, well, wrong. I'll say wrong so I don't get banned.

Didn't the source predict 7.5 million shipped? I knew it was gonna be around 6 or so.

Are you suggesting that Windows Mobile 6.x and Windows Phone 7 were profitable?



Its libraries that sell systems not a single game.

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Acevil on 27 January 2011
Seece said:

Fun stats:

E&D division profit more this Q than it did for the entire of last fiscal year, massive gains.

MS has broken the $ 1 billion profit mark with only TWO Q's. The PS division has never posted higher than $950 million in any fiscal year since it began in 1995.

Lots of variables there, but it goes to show, MS E&D business model is one that is akin to a market leader.


Yep, it is like Nintendo and Microsoft are sharing leadership in terms of how to do business (ignoring the RROD years). In a recession no less. 



 

Seece on 27 January 2011
Acevil said:
Seece said:

Fun stats:

E&D division profit more this Q than it did for the entire of last fiscal year, massive gains.

MS has broken the $ 1 billion profit mark with only TWO Q's. The PS division has never posted higher than $950 million in any fiscal year since it began in 1995.

Lots of variables there, but it goes to show, MS E&D business model is one that is akin to a market leader.


Yep, it is like Nintendo and Microsoft are sharing leadership in terms of how to do business (ignoring the RROD years). In a recession no less. 

Yeah, well with 3 Q's gone for Nintendo they're at $600 million, with 2 gone for MS they're at $1 billion, so unless something crazy happens from Jan- March, it looks like MS  game division will make more than Nintendo.



 

yo_john117 on 27 January 2011

Slowly but surely the 360 will become profitable.



Acevil on 27 January 2011
Seece said:
Acevil said:
Seece said:

Fun stats:

E&D division profit more this Q than it did for the entire of last fiscal year, massive gains.

MS has broken the $ 1 billion profit mark with only TWO Q's. The PS division has never posted higher than $950 million in any fiscal year since it began in 1995.

Lots of variables there, but it goes to show, MS E&D business model is one that is akin to a market leader.


Yep, it is like Nintendo and Microsoft are sharing leadership in terms of how to do business (ignoring the RROD years). In a recession no less. 

Yeah, well with 3 Q's gone for Nintendo they're at $600 million, with 2 gone for MS they're at $1 billion, so unless something crazy happens from Jan- March, it looks like MS  game division will make more than Nintendo.

Nintendo will be at 1 billion, and Microsft will most likely be at 1.5 billion at the end of each quarter. The problem with Nintendo right now is really outside their control and that is the Yen. 



 

justinian on 27 January 2011
Shorty11857 said:
Seece said:
kowenicki said:

seece.... its about profit.

I honestly think ms will be happy wherever the 360 finishes now.

Saying that a price cut this year is a certainty and a very aggressive holiday in 2011.

Profits are good yes



The $4,966 figure is loss obviously.

I really think it should always be stated that this isn't just the xbox division, with everything else they have in  this division we have no real way to know how much the 360 has lost

 

Great results for microsoft though, best quarter ever


Thanks for pointing that out because so many here seem to think that EDD is just the xbox. Wake up.

The EDD profit IS NOT XBOX360 PROFIT. The EDD consist of PC games and online services,  Office, Windows Mobile and a whole lot of other stuff.

We have no idea of how much the x360 (and related items like kinect)  made on it's own and MS didn't say.

Great quarter result for MS regardless.