Do we know how much profit they made overall? Taking into account the RROD writeoff, R&D costs and hardware subsidising in the first year or two.
In anycase they probably want to see much bigger profits from XB1 and get them much faster this time around too.
Nope, I stopped even trying to follow that a while ago. In fact it's just kind of my hunch, but I feel safe it's correct. I do have some couple years old saved images on my computer showing a nice profitability trend in MS divisions that house Xbox, ending maybe 2011.
I think MS has reorganized their divisions many times in the last few years. Dont even know what their divisions are any more.