Microsoft Ships Record 8.2m X360's in Dec Q, EDD Profits $528m
by Seb Parker, posted on 19 January 2012 / 4,181 Views
Microsoft have released their earnings release for FYQ2 2012, the all important holiday quater.
X360 shipments reached 8.2m, a record Q for the now 6 year old machine, up 1.9m units over the same quater last year. Providing we don't see substantial drops over the next 2 quaters, this should be the X360's best fiscal year overall. Total install base now stands at 65.8m. For the Calendar year, the X360 shipped just under 15m units.
Microsoft also reiterated Kinect has shipped over 18m units, and Xbox live is at 40 million active accounts (Gold and Silver). Kinect had reached 10.4m units through March 2011 according to Microsoft, and 8m at the end of 2010, so the device declined at least a bit compared to Q4 2010.
Microsoft don't comment on software figures, but did note that the US software attach ratio went up from 8.9 to 9.1.
The EDD division which houses the Xbox 360 along other entertainment ventures such as Windows phone and Zune, made a profit of $528m, which is down from the $679m they made this Q last year. Revenue is up 15% over last year to $4.24b. So far for FY 2012 the EDD has made $880m profit and $6.203b revenue. Well on track for another year of profit over the $1b mark.
As of this Q by my calculations, the EDD has profited over $3.5b since FY 2008 when they started profiting on the X360, it's likely at this point that total X360 content has now made Microsoft a small profit, offsetting the early (rather large) losses and the RROD payout.
Overall Microsoft saw record revenue this quater, with $20.9b, and profit of $6.62b.
