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He has more accurate info then Nadella? Sorry but this is quite ridiculous, CEO's, especially in companies like MS are fully up to date with profit/loss of its products.
This is Nadella's quote that he was commenting on:
Nadella said:Our gaming business now is more than $9 billion and growing profitably. The gaming world is growing faster than ever before from gameplay across multiple devices, to the explosive growth in streaming and eSports, to new subscription services and mixed reality scenarios...We launched...new services (Mixer and Xbox Game Pass) to broaden our reach and enrich our gaming experience, both of which are off to a very strong start.
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Like Thurrott said, note how he never said that Xbox is profitable. "$9 billion" refers to revenue and "growing profitably" could mean whatever. It is certainly a statement that is fashioned to make people think that Xbox is profitable, though.
Still, Thurrott may still be wrong. But he is a well respected tech journalist (lol) specifically respected for his reporting on Microsoft. So I thought it would be interesting to share.
He's talking about since day 1 the xbox brand has not turned a profit yet. All in all
I don't think so. When you consider the context of Thurrott's quote, which was a comment on Nadella's comments on quarterly earnings, it is clear that he isn't talking about whether cumulatively Xbox has made a profit since the beginning, but rather about whether Xbox has ever made a profit at any moment in time.