During Microsoft’s financial call for investor that was just wrapped up, Chief Financial Officer Amy Hood provided the forecast for the next fiscal quarter, related to the period between April 1st and June 30th.

In the Computing and Gaming Hardware segment, which includes the Xbox platform, Microsoft predicts revenues to be between 1.5 and 1.6 billion dollar.

For comparison’s sake, Computing and Gaming hardware registered $1.8 billion dollar in revenue in the latest quarter (between January 1st and March 31st), while Devices and Consumer other had a 2.3 billion dollar revenue.

In Q4 2014, Computing and Gaming Hardware brought home a revenue of 1.44 Billion Dollar, while Devices and Consumer Other registered a revenue of 1.88 billion dollar.

Source: http://www.dualshockers.com/2015/04/23/microsoft-predicts-better-results-for-xboxs-business-segments-in-next-quarter-compared-to-last-year/

So they're saying that Q2 2015 will bring in more revenue than Q4 2014?!

MS Q4 2014=2015 Jan-March

Well Patch just sunk the xbox, Pacman should give him a call so he can predict a Mayweather victory.

Is it? They said the predict 1.5 - 1.6 B for Q2 2015 and Q4 2014 brought in 1.44B and Q1 brought in 1.8B. I'm right in that aren't I? So their Q4 2014 didn't bring in as much as Q1 2015. I thought that "holiday" season was massive for MS and Xbox and that's where it gets by far the most says in the year.

Just seems strange, unless I'm misunderstanding things.

I think I might be confused as to which months are the quaters, I have it as Jan to March is Q1 2015. But it's financial year isn't it, so that's Q4 2014?

Anyone kinda wonder how long MS is going to stay in the business?

After almost 15 years they really have not made major inroads vs. Sony outside of the US, and it looks like Sony is back to being no.1 in the US too.

Maybe it's time to hang it up, cut a deal with Nintendo that puts Windows/Windows Cloud on their next-gen handheld and console, and stake them to compete with Sony.

X1 is still selling at a faster pace than X360 was. That's progress and I imagine profit. Why would they duck out of a growing market? Doesn't matter if they are number one if their Xbox division is profitable, which it is (correct me if I'm wrong).

I don't want them to leave the business and I doubt they will. The more competition the better.

I'm not so sure, they didn't mention anything about Q2 2014. I just read it back again and the point I'm picking out are:

• Prediction of 1.5 - 1.6B for Q2 2015 - April - June.
• They took 1.8B in the latest quarter, Q1 Jan - March.
• They also took 1.44B in Q4 2014, Oct - Dec.

Theyre not making profit not even close with the xbox one.