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Re:Stupid, Stupid xBox by chc on Tuesday February 12, 2013 @08:21PM (#5210734)
You just posted a chart detailing a whole division's profits and losses as opposed to the Xbox's. But regardless, it shows that division being a huge loser until two years after the Xbox hits, at which point it magically becomes profitable, until 2012 when the division starts pouring money into Windows Phone, at which point it magically becomes unprofitable again. This is exactly the way I described things. To recap:

"it lost money its first couple of years … and since then it has been largely propping up Microsoft's entertainment division, which otherwise would be bleeding like mad."

That is exactly what that chart shows. The Xbox has been turning a yearly profit since 2008, which means it's been turning a profit for most of its life.

Re:Stupid, Stupid xBox by cek on Tuesday February 12, 2013 @09:01PM (#5210880)
Wong. MS hid the costs of IEB behind revenue transferred in from Windows Media Center (the functionality that allowed Windows Pro & Ultimate to have a higher license fee than Home).
Re:Stupid, Stupid xBox by chrisrhoden on Tuesday February 12, 2013 @09:22PM (#5210944)
[citation needed]
Re:Stupid, Stupid xBox by cek on Tuesday February 12, 2013 @09:32PM (#5210990)
How about: I co-founded eHome, the business in MS that created Media Center.
Re:Stupid, Stupid xBox by lostlogin on Wednesday February 13, 2013 @01:06AM (#5211689)
A post on this would be very interesting.