Great to see the big three all doing great. This is a wonderful time for gaming, and this gen should bring out the best out of these companies with increased competition!
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Microsoft's gaming division (Xbox) reports $15.37 billion in revenue
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Great to see the big three all doing great. This is a wonderful time for gaming, and this gen should bring out the best out of these companies with increased competition!
Yeah MS isn't going anywhere. They're all in, will be interesting what else they do in the next 2-3 years. Could be some big deals and acquisitions coming.
Hey, a couple of those dollars came from me! I am very happy with the success Microsoft is experiencing with their Xbox division. They're putting in work and us gamers get to reap benefits. And to think, this gen has just started!
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Note this is only revenue and not profit. They're most likely losing a lot of money on new consoles and Game Pass. However, Game Pass is definitely feasible with the potential revenue it has, same with any subscription service.
Hopefully they don't need 500 million subscribers ($60BN/yr) though /s
Game Pass hits financial viability at $60 billion revenue/year. So they're on their way!
They certainly well might be, but it's clearly not hurting them right now. We'll have to wait and see for the long term.
Great to the see the industry so healthy.
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pretty sure he's joking since some people not him actually believe that
Revenue is not profit. Does MS tell us profit numbers for the gaming division?
Play Anywhere is a "service"? I'm actually very curious who the hell buys games with Play Anywhere as a selling point and how often they use utilize the feature (there's an audience that would rather wait for a Steam release and don't care about Play Anywhere)
EDIT: Let me clarify my stance as I rushed my initial post. I love Play Anywhere and I find it rather convenient as an existing Xbox (Series S) and PC owner as well as Game Pass Ultimate subscriber. However, it intrigues me that they want to push Play Anywhere going forward as part of their "services" as I don't think it gets talked about as much as I'd like; I'm very curious what the "conversion rate" is for consumers who buy Play Anywhere games on PC and eventually buy Xbox hardware down the line or other numbers/data behind the impact Play Anywhere has on purchasing decisions and PC/console ownership. I am just very surprised (to an extent) that Microsoft highlights Play Anywhere as a major pillar in their "Services" offerings. I welcome more Play Anywhere titles and I hope more people buy into it (I just want to see the numbers/data though)!
EDIT: Let me clarify my stance as I rushed my initial post. I love Play Anywhere and I find it rather convenient as an existing Xbox (Series S) and PC owner as well as Game Pass Ultimate subscriber. However, it intrigues me that they want to push Play Anywhere going forward as part of their "services" as I don't think it gets talked about as much as I'd like; I'm very curious what the "conversion rate" is for consumers who buy Play Anywhere games on PC and eventually buy Xbox hardware down the line or other numbers/data behind the impact Play Anywhere has on purchasing decisions and PC/console ownership. I am just very surprised (to an extent) that Microsoft highlights Play Anywhere as a major pillar in their "Services" offerings. I welcome more Play Anywhere titles and I hope more people buy into it (I just want to see the numbers/data though)!
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Nope, and im glad they dont. Makes the annoying "BUT IS IT PROFITABLE" comments even funnier
Nintendo & PlayStation revenue for comparison (All 3 had record years)
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Nintendo reported $16.59 billion for FY 21 (Year ending in March 31 2021) (Up 31.2% YoY)
Sony's Game & Network (PlayStation) reported $25.03 billion for FY 21 (Year ending in March 31 2021) (Up 31.67% YoY)
Xbox is up 32.8 YoY, so all similar growth.
All three had record years.
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Well you see, Halo Infinite was rumored to cost $500M dollars, so we would need to quadruple the game pass subs to cover it. We're looking at 2 billion game pass subs in order to fund Halo Infinite judging by my napkin math.
It's a reasonable assumption, given their spending spree and loss-leader consoles and services, that the gaming division's profit is very low or in the red.
Your napkin math doesn't matter, friend, since you're not a former corporate executive. Sorry.
I specifically bought Yakuza: Like a Dragon from the MS Store when it launched instead of Steam because I had a Series S on the way.
If you have a PC and an Xbox and especially have Game Pass Ultimate, Play Anywhere is great since you can play games on either with the same save.
25 billion for Sony god damn. Good to see everyone thriving though
Stadia is hoarding all the failure. There's none left for anyone else.
Not even remotely close right now. Nintendo has stupidly high margins given their stance on full price games and selling hardware at a profit.
I do. All the time. I normally like to play on the couch, but a lot of my friends play on PC with discord. If I want to chat with them I fire up the same game on PC and it picks me up in directly the same spot. Can't wait till everything is play anywhere.
Is there any word on whether they're losing money on console sales?
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Xbox's business development VP Lori Wright has said that Microsoft has never made a profit on Xbox hardware in the Epic/Apple lawsuit two months ago.
Microsoft says it has never made a profit from the sale of an Xbox console | VGC
Company claims it always sells devices at a loss as part of Epic vs Apple trial…
www.videogameschronicle.com
I mean, Nintendo Had 16.59 B vs 15.37 B. The revenue (not the profit cause we don't know the full data) of both is quite close.
I had to reread that, 3 billion players? That sounds unattainable.
Phil took over in 2009.
COINCIDENCE? I think NOT!!! :)
Anyway good results for MS, this is only the beginning. The XBox eco-system is on fire.
Nintendo don't really have enough of the super 3rd parties to get much higher, it's largely carried by them, whereas PSN software sales is just massive revenue on it's own. They more than make up for it profit wise, they made 6 billion on 16b revenue. Sony made over 3 billion on 25 billion revenue (though launching a console is always super expensive).