Microsoft's Revenues Up Except for Games Division

Posted by Zonk on Thursday January 26, 2006 @01:45PM from the taking-a-loss-on-the-360 dept.

Gamasutra reports on Microsoft's announcement that their revenues are up, but the games division has seen a sharp decrease in profitability. From the article: "Microsoft's Home and Entertainment division, which overall includes the Microsoft Xbox video game console system, PC games, the Home Products Division, and TV platform products for the interactive television industry, saw revenue of $1.56 billion in the 3 months to the end of December and a significant loss of $293 million, compared to $1.37 billion revenues and a small profit of $55 million in the same period last year."

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Re:XBOX 360 by Anonymous Coward · 2006-01-26 13:54 · Score: 1, Funny

They had to pay the IRS a good deal to understand the numbers too. So don't worry, you aren't the only one who can't understand.
Typical by truthsearch · 2006-01-26 14:02 · Score: 2, Funny

So you don't want to read the synopsis... or the actual articles... but you're quick to post a comment.

Typical Slashdot. :)

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Small? by suricatta · 2006-01-26 14:42 · Score: 3, Funny

"...a small profit of $55 million..."

Maybe I'll go work for the Microsoft Games Division and ask for a small salary :)