Well apparently numbers of any sort aren't the "be all and end all" for MS. Doesn't really make sense as they seem to be doing fine. If you stop sharing numbers you have a reason to hide them, and MS is far from the only company to pull such a move.
Sales numbers are the lifeblood of business by the way, so saying it's not the "be all and end all" is absolutely absurd. That's like saying your paycheck isn't the "be all and end all" for your money if it's the only income you have. Come again?
"We are doing great! Oh you want to know about sales numbers? Well if you want to figure all that stuff, that's not really important to us ... "
Anyway! Just prefer to deal with reality. These threads read so bizarrely. There is a certain continually used image, that I won't post, that is repeatedly used, fits yet again, and it always boggles my mind that it happens.
I don't understand this. So if someone doesn't have an over the moon take on the company currently hitting "last place" numbers in every important metric, your response is an attempt at mocking them? I don't think this reaction comes across the way you think it does.
Again Xbox is doing
fine, and there is plenty of room to improve and grow. I just can't get over the reactions from the "Xbox-only" crowds in some of these threads. You're literally celebrating over a company that won't report numbers, experiences marginal growth, and is down in some categories. But pointing that out is just called reporting the news, it's not a bash.
To wit:
Cloud and Office save the revenue day
www.theverge.com
P.S. Notice what The Verge points out about GP numbers. And, again, this is just "the news." This is not a "take."