[rv @ Oct 26th 2007 12:53PM]

Now will they sustain profits instead of losses in the entertainment division after halo?

Its good that they did turn a profit there. I was beginning to think that they may never turn a profit and then abandon the xbox.

[Matthew Hilario @ Oct 26th 2007 12:56PM]

xbox saved vista.

[getz76 @ Oct 26th 2007 1:36PM]

Love it or hate it, it sold 88 million copies, Matty.

Not too shabby.

[blahh @ Oct 26th 2007 1:50PM]

forced 88M copies on people

[roach @ Oct 26th 2007 1:51PM]

iPod saved Apple

[Ruben @ Oct 26th 2007 2:33PM]

@blahh

Last time i checked, consumers had a choice, as well as the vendors.

If HP, Acer, and all those other low-cost PC manufacturers felt that Vista was the disaster that the internet seems to make it out to be, then they wouldnt use it, and stick to XP.

If Vista is such a bad choice, and is "forced" on all of us, then why isnt the alternative doing nearly as well?

[MauMan @ Oct 26th 2007 2:54PM]

(back to the original commenter's thread)

Not yet. If you subtract the "$300 million bounce" due to halo 3 they lost $135m this quarter which is comparable to the $142m loss the same quarter last year. They're losing less but they're still bleeding money in the Entertainment and Devices BU. To date that BU has lost $7 billion (income - expenses) since the XBox came out and that does not count fiscal year 2001 which incurred expenses due to the XBox development.

However, I would not worry about Microsoft ditching the XBox anytime soon. Clearly if loosing bags of money was a deterrent to Microsoft they would have bailed on this thing a long time ago.