Harrison: consoles still "generate the majority of the money"
for industry  Harrison: consoles still &quot;generate the
majority of the money&quot; for industry  Thu 22 Aug 2013 7:28am
GMT / 3:28am EDT / 12:28am PDT  Also, could we see the Rift on
Xbox One?  Microsoft's Phil Harrison has said that he still sees
consoles as the industry's main business, producing the majority
of revenue.  Speaking to CVG at Gamescom this week, Harrison
defended the console market as a viable ongoing business,
showing unsurprising optimism in a sector which has been marked
as declining by many proponents of social, mobile and free-to-
play.  "Well the Xbox 360 continues to make a profit, and we
hope a substantial contribution not just to Microsoft but to the
industry as a whole," Harrison explained. "There are various
stakeholders who are publishing, developing, retailing,
distributing, manufacturing - there's still a very substantial
economy around the console business, and it still generates the
majority of the money in the co