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Originally Posted by nik-
I'd be curious to see Xbox earnings if they didn't tie it into the Surface and Windows Phone division. There's little surprise that Microsoft makes insane money, but it's from SQL, OS and Office, not their hardware.
It seems like Xbox lost $400 million last year. So the $35 million profit for that hardware division is all Surface and Phone.
http://www.dualshockers.com/2014/08/...t-fiscal-year/ |
i'm not disagreeing, but those figures are from June and they are from the last full FY. the numbers that i posted were from the last quarter. the microsoft computing and gaming hardware division had gross margins of $479 million; i couldn't see the net income from that but it is probably there somewhere and i couldn't find it.
Regardless of reasons though, one parent company is fiscally stronger than the other.