After Nintendo raised its profit forecasts and Sony’s games division reported massive damage yesterday, it was Microsoft’s turn to report their earnings for the first quarter of the 2008 fiscal year. And though the company isn’t quite drowning in money like Nintendo, it’s at least dipping its feet in the pool.
The Entertainment and Devices Division reported a growth of 90% to tally up $1.9 billion, driven by the success of Halo 3 and the recent price drops. The company sold 1.8 million units in the quarter, for a total of 13.4 million worldwide.
The company also cited the NPD numbers to point out that software sales in September outsold all PS3 and Wii software combined — not a hard task when you launched the biggest day in entertainment history. Microsoft did taut their third-party success further; since November of last year, third-party software has hit the top ten in the NPD charts 27 times for the Xbox 360, compared to only twice for PS3 and once for Wii.
