Not that it really matters but for some reason I’m fascinated by this…
2011 was a fantastic year with the Entertainment and Devices Division business unit (EDD BU) finally breaking $1b in profits. 2012Q1 was down quite a bit from last year ($248m vs. $375m) but there’s still lots of room to possibly have $1b+ gain this year.
This brings the EDD BU total net loss (revenue – expenses) to ~$4.58billion over the lifetime of the XBox/XBox 360. In 3-4 more years maybe the BU will finally break even…
| Year | Net income | Cumulative |
|---|---|---|
| 2012Q1 | $248 | ($4576) |
| 2011 | $1135 | ($4824) |
| 2010 | $573 | ($5959) |
| 2009 | $288* | ($6532) |
| 2008 | $497 | ($6820) |
| 2007 | ($1898) | ($7317) |
| 2006 | ($1339) | ($5419) |
| 2005 | ($539) | ($4080) |
| 2004 | ($1215) | ($3514) |
| 2003 | ($1191) | ($2326) |
| 2002 | ($1135) | ($1135) |
(in millions of dollars)
*changed from 169 to 288, the adjusted number in the 2011 annual report.
In the I don’t think that means what you think that means department…
A while back I thought it was a pretty neat trick that .NET could figure out that these anonymous functions were the same and would do the right thing:
SomeEvent += new EventHandler((object o, EventArgs e)=>{ DoSomethingCool(); });
...
SomeEvent -= new EventHandler((object o, EventArgs e)=>{ DoSomethingCool(); });
It turns out it cannot.
My bad.
The economy must be getting better as one of my credit card companies feels that the best use of its money is to overnight me a several pound 14”x9”x10.5” package with bubble wrap, filler, two ice packs in a styrofoam box to send me a 3.5oz box of Godiva chocolates to thank me for being a “valued customer”.
I would have thought news like this would have RBS conserving money not sending out gifts. But then again what do I know? Perhaps that’s why they are paid the Big Bucks (or British Pounds as the case may be) and I’m not.
For some reason I did not do the annual report. For 2009 the EDD BU made $169m for the year. Using the other 3 quarter’s numbers that means the BU lost $129m in 2009Q4. A profitable year which is good, but much less profitable than last year with a sharp down turn at the end which is not good.
On a positive note 1010Q1 was excellent with EDD’s net revenue being $312m, getting close to their best ever quarter (2008Q2, $334m), and this time they did not have the Halo 3 $200m bump. For a week in September they even caught up with the Wii weekly sales but since then Wii sales have jumped to two times XBox360 sales (by units sold).
With this good quarter this brings the EDD BU’s net loss (revenue – expenses) down to $6.339 billion since the XBox was launched.
| Year | Net income | Cumulative |
|---|---|---|
| 2010Q1 | $312 | ($6339) |
| 2009 | $169 | ($6651) |
| 2008 | $497 | ($6820) |
| 2007 | ($1898) | ($7317) |
| 2006 | ($1339) | ($5419) |
| 2005 | ($539) | ($4080) |
| 2004 | ($1215) | ($3514) |
| 2003 | ($1191) | ($2326) |
| 2002 | ($1135) | ($1135) |
(in millions of dollars)
Note: In the 2009 they also adjusted their 2008 (~$50m up) and 2007 numbers (~60m up). I assume this is due to some sort of auditing after the initial report. I usually update my table to have these numbers so if the more recent version of the table is most accurate of what Microsoft has reported. So if my table does does not match previous ones that is why.
The Vista Clock Gadget is so realistic that apparently it needs to be wound up occasionally.
It was 3:40pm when the image was grabbed.
I guess the ~7000 blogspams posted over the last week and a half I just deleted means someone has defeated the capcha scheme I’ve been using :-)
It never seems to surprise how much money the various mobile phone carriers will leave on the table.
I have a bit of money to burn for my birthday coming up in September. I’ve always wanted to have some backup internet access in case I’m on vacation or I have an outage at the house when I need it. Up to this point I’ve been a bit disappointed in that none on the major carriers have a pay as you go data option taht has decent coverage.
On paper the good news is Verizon now offers Daypass an option to get 3G access to the internet for $15 for 24 hours of access. It’s expensive but if you need it for just a couple of days a year it’s worth it.
The crux is you need a wireless card which according to the daypass docs:
“To purchase a Verizon Wireless Mobile Broadband USB modem or ExpressCard, call 800-786-8419, visit a Verizon Wireless store or speak to your Verizon Wireless sales representative. Click here for information on select notebooks with Mobile Broadband Built-In.”
And thus lies the problem. After having visited their website, two of their stores and having called their 1-800 number I’ve found it’s not possible to buy their modems without buying a non-daypass plan.
So to use their non-plan plan you have to buy a plan.
As my dear wife put it, apparently I’m the first non-reviewer customer to actually attempt to buy their product.
Look in a few months for Verizon to cancel their daypass plan for lack of interest since customers who are interested in in cannot enroll in in unless they already have a plan and thus don’t need it.
It’s full of *-ware nastiness! Bad iPhone! Bad!
This is the sort of thing that drives programmers mad…
Consider the following C# code:
Color inputColor = Color.White;
Bitmap bitmap = new Bitmap(1, 1);
bitmap.SetPixel(0, 0, inputColor);
Color outputColor = bitmap.GetPixel(0, 0);
if (inputColor == outputColor)
Console.WriteLine("Same color");
else
Console.WriteLine("Different color");
if (inputColor.Equals(outputColor))
Console.WriteLine("Same color");
else
Console.WriteLine("Different color");
You would expect the output to be:
Same color
Same color
and of course you would be wrong.
Why?
Because inputColor is a named color (White, RGBA) and outputColor is an unnamed color (RGBA).
Obvious huh?
According to their annual report Nintendo sold more Wiis in the last year than Microsoft has sold XBox360s in the last three years. Or Sony seeing PS/3s in the last 2.5 years.
So…
In 2007 they brought in $2.5 million/per employee
In 2008 they brought in $1.6 million/per employee (they bought some factories and significantly increased their head count)
I’ve not seen what the 2009 numbers are yet per employee.
Must be nice to be able to print your own money….
