On: Google Buys Motorola For $12.5 Billion

[achompas]

No cite for my specific claim, but I found this Engadget article claiming MS's Entertainment & Devices Division (read: Xbox) was $80 million in the black in 2008:

http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/24/xbox-goes-profitable-almo...

Note that I got the write-down year wrong--it was 2007.

[bostonvaulter2 → achompas]

Isn't that just profit for that year, not including all of the sunk costs to get started?

[achompas → bostonvaulter2]

Are we looking at cumulative Xbox profits from day one? Generally one is interested in a division's ability to generate positive cash flow, no matter the initial cost, because it's assumed that division will generate said cash flow in perpetuity.