MSFT DecQtr: $21bn rev, $6.6bn profit, 360: 8.2m shipped, Kinect Install base 18m

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Euphoria14 on 19 January 2012

Carl2291 said:
Those are great numbers. Massive profits and sales.

Bit silly that Ballmer lied about the more than 66 Million "users" though.

He did say "users" didn't he?

Oh boy did he fuck up.

As for the topic on hand, even though they just barely missed out on 15M for the year this is no doubt a fantastic achievement. Great job MS and looking forward to the rest of 2012.

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Shinobi-san on 19 January 2012

Its ironic that MS was touting to be the number 1 home console for 2011 based on sales to consumers....a figure which no company can ever truly know, especially when a competing console ships very similar figures.

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ethomaz on 19 January 2012

Sorry @Seece... I'm the best for shipment predictions .

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Seece on 19 January 2012

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Sorry @Seece... I'm the best for shipment predictions .

Afraid not, pezus got there before you

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Machiavellian on 19 January 2012

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Ohhh look. Interesting fact in the accounts for E&D division.

Sales and marketing expenses increased $94 million or 27%,

So last year this quarter... sales and marketing costs were around $350m for the whole division... including kinect, 360 and all else.

So can we never mention the $500m for kinect alone for holiday alone again please.

I thank you.

The 500m was a budget for advertising not actualy money spent. I use to argue this fact all of the time but of course people only want to understand their own limited comprehension. Even today people refer to the budget as if MS spent all of the money in one day and not that this was a budget set aside for the whole year.

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ethomaz on 19 January 2012

Seece said:

ethomaz said:

Sorry @Seece... I'm the best for shipment predictions .

Afraid not, pezus got there before you

I'm glad you make me change my predicition from 8.1m to 8.2m .

On spot... thanks.

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Seece on 19 January 2012

ethomaz said:

Seece said:

ethomaz said:

Sorry @Seece... I'm the best for shipment predictions .

Afraid not, pezus got there before you

I'm glad you make me change my predicition from 8.1m to 8.2m .

On spot... thanks.

No problem, I remember one of your MS predictions being pretty horrible, should have listened then too

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enrageorange on 19 January 2012

at first I was about to complain about the attach ratio... vgchartz having it at 10.35. But then I read the source is npd so bundled games are not included.

vgchartz had 360 software at 342million at the end of the year.

According to npd it should have been 301million

+10mil kinect adventures

+holiday bundles, limited edition bundles, random bundles, accessory bundled games, etc.... 20mil+

Pure, Lego Batman, Lego Indiana Jones, Kung Fu Panda, Marvel Ultimate Allience, Halo 3, Fable 2, Fable 3, Forza 2, Forza 3, Halo 3 ODST have been included in holiday/random bundles.

Halo Reach, Halo 3, Gears of War 3, Final Fantasy XIII, Splinter Cell Conviction, Resident Evil 5, MW2, MW3, GTAIV have had "limited edition" bundles

PGR4 had a bundle with xbox live 12month.

Am I missing anything?

Seems pretty accurate to me but then again I am biased. Anyone else have an opinion on this?