CharlesRyan
Adventurer
Compared to what multi-national conglomerates consider sales?
No, not at all.
Ah, yes. Flogging the old "Magic/D&D are inconsequential to Hasbro, but at the same time Hasbro suits are obsessed with micromanaging them" horse again. One of the net's most enduring myths.
Hasbro operates a constellation of brands, the vast majority of which "only" generate tens of millions of dollars in revenue. D&D and Magic fit very comfortably within that model, and probably outperform many recognizable Hasbro brands and business units.
Hasbro does not tend to micro-manage its brand units (not unless it's had a radical change in management policy since I was there). Top-line strategies and bottom-line performance are subject to corporate review, and some functions (licensing, for example) are centralized, but the "suits" in Rhode Island really don't have time for the tactics.
In other words, both of the premises in that self-contradicting theory are utterly false.