Interesting. Gaming revenue was actually lower than they expected. Looks like they hoped to sell more consoles and for 3rd party games to monetize better as well. They expect a lower yoy next quarter, too. Fantastic quarter all around regardless.
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Microsoft Q3 results: Gaming up 5% YoY, XBL users now 63m
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It includes Xbox 360 and any Xbox Live enabled game (Minecraft on iOS/Android/Switch, etc).
Gold isn't going away but a few of us believe the MP paywall will come down one day. ^.^
Agreed!
This is a pretty good summary article on the Xbox side of things, which seems pretty accurate as we head into next gen - http://workingcasual.com/microsofts-annual-gaming-revenue-exceeds-11-6-billion-for-the-first-time/
Surprisingly negative thread. Microsoft gaming grows YoY in XB1's twilight, despite not having boosted XB1X sales to prop it up like last year. Services performing very strongly. Guess that's a bad thing.
It's to get a rise out of you. There's no reason to say something like "good thing I can play their games on PC, now I don't have to buy a console!" because they know exactly what this means.
"You see, it isn't selling better than PS4 and Switch, therefor I win."
I guess that means Pepsi should go away.
And Burger King.
And any cheese product not called Kraft.
I don't need to point out the fact that they are refering to revenue anymore. But even the PS4 is past it's peak in sales which is why both Sony and Microsoft plan on launching next gen hardware by next year or so.
Thanks guys. Appreciate the info. And yeah, I don't believe that the MP paywall will ever go away simply because they make way too much money off of it.
I don't need a link. I can do the math.
But right now the value is back to $997.3bn.
$MSFT has 7,672 million outstanding shares as of the most recent quarter.
$MSFT was trading at $130.89 during after hours.
But here is also a link:
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/24/microsoft-q3-2019-earnings.html
Now how much of that will go into R&D for the new controller lol. Congrats to Microsoft and everyone at the company.
I don't think they care, as long as you are playing their games on their services.
Why would they put their games on PC if it didn't benefit them?
Lots of old folks on this forum who haven't got the memo on how making fun of Microsoft is no longer a sign of a cool, discerning individual.
So your question is why you should give them money instead of giving them money? Because either way they get your money.
Because it's not about Xbox anymore, but about the service/streaming future and they can't win this battle without the PC.
Nop, most hardware sold = Win. And Is not going to change, if Microsoft was the number 1 selling hardware at this point, the PR was totally different.
They get a lot less money from PC because they don't need to pay for Gold.
You obviously don't actually want this answer as it was provided by Microsoft literally years ago on gaming's biggest stage and reinforced countless upon countless times since. There is an entire Xbox brand initiative behind answering that very question.
Eh the increase includes windows 10. I bet it's almost all windows 10, and almost all of those are very casual gamers looking to play solitaire. I would love to see the actual numbers and be proved wrong though.
hardware is increasingly becoming irrelevant. Services is much more important than console sold.
If anything it's currently the complete opposite, the more hardware you can sell, the larger the install base through which to sell software, DLC, services, subscriptions etc. The success of Nintendo and Sony, in almost every category (hardware, software and services) make this abundantly clear.
Amazing result. Great to see MS doing solid numbers all round. This can only mean good things for Xbox.
I assume that is qtr over qtr which would make sense seeing as how Christmas was last quarter and companies sell more consoles then. Need to know what the comparison is to find an explanation.
It's both. MS gaming division is profitable during a shit gen for them. That is a major coup. Other companies have failed to survive during these times. MS is growing and reloading.
True, it's where people choose to play third party games that impacts them the most.
Do you have a source for the bolded statement? Cause to my knowledge Microsoft haven't released profit figures for the Gaming division this gen.
It's because Era has this weird hatred toward Xbox. Like, don't get me wrong, they absolutely botched this generation's launch and early years (up through the MCC launch), but in the year's following they've righted the ship.
It's this weird internet culture of wanting to see things fail rather than being happy when they succeed.
We don't know that Microsoft's gaming division is profitable, they don't release profit/loss figures in their reports and haven't done for some time (unlike Nintendo and Sony). Thurrot (well known tech and Microsoft insider) seems to imply the complete opposite, that Xbox has never been profitable, even this gen. With recent acquisitions and Game Pass etc, I'd imagine that is still the case today, though of course we can't know for sure.
Thurrott said:
https://www.petri.com/paul-thurrotts-short-takes-microsoft-earnings-special-edition-7
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Era is strange for this. I cant figure it out. It's like theres a load of the "egg bill gates" people still around but microsift haven't done anything wrong in the past few years and only seem to be going from strength to strength.