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Egads! Xbox finally turns in a profit

  • 25-01-2008 10:15am
    #1
    Scruff
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,222 ✭✭✭


    Seems the xbox finally started turning in a profit rather than a loss.

    Article here

    xbox-dollar-bill-490pxa.jpg
    with today's announcement of Microsoft's second quarter earnings which showed a relatively impressive six-month income of $524 million (compared to a $423m loss during the same period last year) from the the Xbox's Entertainment and Devices Division.


Comments

  • #2
    MayoForSam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,283 ✭✭✭MayoForSam


    Hmm.... clever accountants rather, managing to include Halo 3 sales and concealing the cost of replacing all those RROD boxes.


  • #3
    Ciaran500
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,225 ✭✭✭Ciaran500


    Why would they exclude Halo 3 sales and where does it say they left out the RROD fixes :confused:


  • #4
    Unearthly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,047 ✭✭✭Unearthly


    and how would they be clever getting the accounts wrong, thus eventually losing their jobs


  • #5
    Kur4mA
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,216 ✭✭✭Kur4mA


    MayoForSam wrote: »
    Hmm.... clever accountants rather, managing to include Halo 3 sales and concealing the cost of replacing all those RROD boxes.

    Hmm.... clever assumption. What makes you think the shareholders wouldn't have noticed this if it was the case yet you amazingly did?


  • #6
    MayoForSam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,283 ✭✭✭MayoForSam


    kyub wrote: »
    Hmm.... clever assumption. What makes you think the shareholders wouldn't have noticed this if it was the case yet you amazingly did?

    My tongue was firmly pressed in cheek when I made this comment. Great, so MS are making more money. I find it a little strange that they have starting doing so already, as Bill Gates always maintained that they could afford to keep pumping/losing money with the Xbox in order to supercede Sony and grab the 'home media everything' market (not just games) that is around the corner (well, maybe not in this country until BB gets sorted out).

    I would prefer if they made less profit and instead invested and sorted out issues with the hardware and especially with Xbox Live - dedicated servers anyone? We'll see how things go for them this year with no Halo 3 on the horizon and the PS3 slowly building up a head of steam.


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  • #7
    Kur4mA
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,216 ✭✭✭Kur4mA


    Feck Halo 3. There's a ton of games coming out on the 360 this year that look a million times better than Halo 3. As far as games go, they definitely don't have anything to worry about.

    Personally, I know for a fact after seeing the following list (sorry for spam I know it was posted over on the Games forum) that I'll be spending way more money on 360 games this year than I did last year.

    http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=223922


  • #8
    Karmafaerie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,871 ✭✭✭Karmafaerie


    MayoForSam wrote: »
    My tongue was firmly pressed in cheek when I made this comment.

    Then use a smiley.
    Sarcasim in writen form.
    It just dosn't work!;)

    MayoForSam wrote: »
    Great, so MS are making more money. I find it a little strange that they have starting doing so already, as Bill Gates always maintained that they could afford to keep pumping/losing money with the Xbox in order to supercede Sony and grab the 'home media everything' market (not just games) that is around the corner (well, maybe not in this country until BB gets sorted out).

    Nobody expected the 360 to do as well as it has, not even MS
    MayoForSam wrote: »
    I would prefer if they made less profit and instead invested and sorted out issues with the hardware and especially with Xbox Live - dedicated servers anyone? We'll see how things go for them this year with no Halo 3 on the horizon and the PS3 slowly building up a head of steam.

    GOW II anyone!:D

    And I'm sorry, but if by "picking up steam", you mean get close to catching up on the 360 sales in the summer, before plunging down to the stage where they sold less than half the amount as the 360 did in December, then yes, the PS3 really is picking up steam!!!:p


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