What do you mean Microsoft has yet to see the light at the end of tunnel of the TV race.
Who said anything about a TV race?
& MS has yet to even see the light at the other end of the tunnel when it comes to being profitable on the Xbox brand.
Not only that but the 360 has been a profitable system since 2010 and that's not counting all of the kinects sold as well as the $4.8 billion that xbox live estimates to make per quarter.
MS only recently started making profits on the Xbox, but they are so far in the hole, that they have a long way to go to actually being profitable on their Xbox venture.
see example below
And don't use the bullshit excuse that Microsoft is using unfair bussiness pratices about using money from one market to fuel another. If tthat were the case Sony,apple, and google would have been hit as well right? That's how business goes. If the other guy cant compete he is obviously playing out of his league. (Like oyua for example)
Well, I'm almost positive that there was a good reason for MS splitting up their divisions a few years back so that each division has to manage their own profit and losses and can't siphon off of their most profitable division forever. I'm sure there was also a good reason that MS pre-spent $1.1Billion in RRoD repair cost just prior to this restructuring so that it would be absorbed by the new division splits so that there wouldn't be yet another red mark on the Xbox division's "profit" margin.
& Xbox Live seems to be the only thing actually making money for MS in their Xbox Division and that's mostly because people are paying to be advertised to, making MS money twice.
& I also don't remember Sony, Google or Apple purposely losing billions of dollars to buy it's way into a market with no plan of making any actual profits for the next 5-8 years (thanks to the profits from it's other sector absorbing any and all loses). Sony & Apple have been charging a Premium on everything they sell for decades now, and Google doesn't really "sell" anything.
MS has gotten in trouble on numerous occasion, in numerous markets for "unfair business practices" that you claim are bullshit, so I don't see how it's a stretch to point out how they were dancing the line once again.