Rare Spike in Microsoft Console Profits

PLMIV writes "Microsoft said the company's home and entertainment division, which includes games and the Xbox video game console system, posted its first profitable quarter on sales of its hit game Halo 2. But the company said the division probably would be back in the red for the rest of the fiscal year and would not achieve sustained profitability until sometime in fiscal 2007."

Re:Massaging the books?

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It umm... doesn't even make the top 10 last I checked.

I think it's sold 6.7 million copies worldwide atm. Nothing to sneeze at, and very respectable...

But the thing is there are a LOT of huge sellers in previous console generations.

Mario Kart 64 for example sold something stupid like 12 million units worldwide. Mario 64 sold 10 million units in Japan and the US alone.

And that's just Nintendo, last generation.

I guess it depends upon your definition of biggest.