The Surface damage is mounting at Microsoft
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But the latest Surface tablet is getting nice reviews.
I'd rather be phishing!
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Yeah, I seem to recall reading billion dollar loss headlines about it as well. And still. I don't think that division has ever made money.
TTFN - Kent
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Yeah, I seem to recall reading billion dollar loss headlines about it as well. And still. I don't think that division has ever made money.
TTFN - Kent
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By itself, the division may not rake in the money, but with the license fees for game developers to get SDKs, devkits, etc, along with first-party games like Halo, they don't really need to worry too much about it.
True, and they (XBox) have been doing better lately. I think that you've hit on a big difference between XBox and Surface though: there seems little way that the Surface can create such an ecosystem. The XBox devices themselves can do poorly, but the ecosystem as a whole does well.
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The company took in $19.9 billion in revenue this quarter – up 10 percent compared to last year's earnings – with $4.97 billion in net income. Revenue for Microsoft's Entertainment and Devices Division, which includes Xbox 360 hardware and software sales, grew by 8 percent ($134 million) this quarter, and 6 percent ($566 million) year-on-year. Microsoft additionally reports that Xbox Live transactional revenue grew by nearly 20 percent during the last quarter year.
TTFN - Kent
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"Negative. Negative. Just impacted on the Surface."