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January 28, 2005 Link to this post
The Color of Money
Tons of articles today are looking at Microsoft's bottom line, and how it was bolstered by Halo 2. The LA Times has a piece showing that Halo 2's $300 million in revenue helped the entertainment division post a gain instead of a loss. (Total sales were $10.8 billion for the year; $1.4 billion of that was in the entertainment division... so a bit more than 10% of Microsoft's income comes from Entertainment, and one fifth of THAT came from a game that was released with less than two months in the year remaining. Not too shabby! Halo 2 accounts for almost 3% of Microsoft's overall revenues!) Other articles: BBC (thanks, Shinesevens), Gamespot. Update: Oops, forgot one; TeamXbox put up a story, too (thanks, John Rivas). (Louis Wu 14:06:52 UTC)
