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Microsoft just posted the third quarter of its 2024 fiscal financial results. The software maker made $61.9 billion in revenue and a net income of $21.9 billion during Q3. Revenue is up 17 percent, and net income has increased by 20 percent.
Xbox content + services up 62% while hardware down 31%... seems about right with the way they tout you don't need the hardware to play. People can play on their phones or smart tv or other means. I don't hardly play on my consoles directly since getting devices like the logitech g-cloud and ps portal. Which is to also say I have been playing more digital than physical because of these devices.
you should apply in MS PR team buddy, I think you will do a great job in my humble opinion :)
MS: "Xbox services and content without AB up 1%, with AB up 62%. Hardware down 31%. In total a loss of 350 mill."
darthv72: "Seems about right."
MS: "Excuse m ..."
darthv72: "I don't hardly play on my consoles directly."
MS:
What he said was facts. How he plays games is no concern of you. Don't get too mad about it.
I can tell people like you are an absolute minority..
If service is up means their fans and fanboys accepted this model and subscribed to it. The near future you will see a big decline because the service is saturated.
to you it may seem like the minority... but your bubble is shrinking because more and more are following suit. convenience is a hell of a drug and its also why physical sales only amount to 30% of overall game sales. times are changing, you either get with them or you get left behind.
Darth
30% physical sales: yet Phil and xbox division are in a rush go give up on that 30%. they don't have any right to give up any piece of the pie since the control such a little of the pie to begin with
also, the market is clearly speaking that the model Xbox is pushing isn't working right now the keyword being right now. you are right about freedom to play anywhere so i hope they put their games on steam
But that's been ms for years. When things aren't going their way they try to change the way things are said. For instance console sales are down, they stop telling how many sold instead telling us how many hours spent in halo or headshots. So it makes sense console sales down just say people are playing on more devices then previous. What they won't say is how many xbox players jumped ship to ps5.
Hardware sales are so bad that Sony and Nintendo are blowing the sales off the water with their hardware.
If Xbox are losers, others aren’t..
Xbox already tried everything with Xbox live then subscriptions went down so much that they had to find something else. Their fans subscribed then reached saturation rather quickly.
Hardware and exclusive games is where it’s at! Keep gamers excited, announce decent software and people will support you
@shin
Well keep it simple Sony 's operating income is down 26% and Microsoft's is up 32%. No MS spin there, just facts. 😉
Cheers
MS is after diminishing consoles as a medium. They want to destroy this market because they couldnt win. MS’s vision is to dissolve console gaming.
Odd that a company that touts you dont need the hardware to play is already touting another console in the works.
They are not reliant on the HW but still want to maintain a presence (no matter how small) is a good thing. It shows commitment to the craft. It reminds me of SNK and how they made games for their own hardware (Neo Geo) while also making them for others because they knew there was a market to do so. They knew they would sell more to others but also sell to their own niche fan base.
Perfectly reasonable post down voted by insecure corporation friendly folk.... But not gamers. Real gamer want accessibility and ease of acquisition for all.... Company shills are the only ones still telling us that hardware locking people from games is good for us.
@Darth
You should stop parroting metrics like an idiot without context.
"Xbox content and services revenue grew 62% in Q3 from a year earlier, “driven by 61 points of net impact” from the purchase of the third-party video game giant, Microsoft said."
61 of the 62% was from their merger so net increase is ONLY 1%
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@chevalier
It looks like made a great purchase. Much better then Sony buying Bungie. 😉
Cheers
In the last two years they've started exiting the consumer market altogether. All of the newest Surface products are business models only. They can't seem to work out what they want to do with it.
Too expensive hardware when others offer the same or more for less? Good work, Green Team.
"Despite some early successes for Xbox games on rival platforms, Xbox hardware is down by a massive 31 percent this quarter."
"Without Activision Blizzard, Microsoft’s overall gaming revenue would have actually declined this quarter."
"Xbox content and services would have only been up a single percent without Activision Blizzard..."
"It looks like next quarter is going to be a similar story for gaming at Microsoft, too."
That is crazy... so A/B/K is carrying the whole Xbox gaming.
Oh and Microsoft will be fine. Windows, Office and Cloud are growing with each pc purchase.
Activision: "we gonna need a bigger rucksack/backpack please"
Microsoft: "why's that"
Activision: "to carry yo' weak ass'
Top brass have also wanted to start seeing returns on the 100 billion they have put into various Xbox related moves so seeing more multiplatform games is highly likely especially from abk
It's basically saying that PlayStation is the reason Xbox is afloat right now thinks to Ps5 versions of COD
The only growth MS will get out of the console industry is if it supports it's rivals platforms. Xbox is a pointless machine now. I can see them on a big push for live next, and they won't give up on trying to buy Steam.
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I told you guys in previous threads Microsoft and SONY are not competing. Them buying up all the Gaming Publishers and Studios is about keeping companies like Apple, Amazon ect... Out of the video business. They are doing everything in their power to hurt Apple.
Microsoft is just looking to profit off of Apple losing the court case because they were prevented in putting their service on Apple's platform like they wanted just like Epic was guilty in trying to go around Apple's policy. Apple's phone, while successful, is not a utility. Microsoft is just as guilty of trying to lock others out of their platform or games by buying up publishers. If they weren't, they'd have PS Plus or Now and Nintendo's service on Xbox without having Nintendo or Sony having to pay royalties to Microsoft. And all the publishers and developer's games Microsoft bought would be multiplatform.
It's hard to say if it's a good idea or not to try to lock other companies out your platform. But it's your platform. Not saying I'm for Apple or Google or Amazon or whomever. But let's look at this differently because it's all tied together with different forms of lock outs.
Nintendo tried to lock competitors interested in competition in getting into the game industry with policies put forth back then to keep third parties from making games on others platforms like Sega. What if Nintendo bought up third party developers back then? Crazy right? But Sega wasn't trying to make games for Nintendo. They wanted equal footing but made their own platform for games. Epic backed by Tencent could make their own console or phone. Instead, Epic wants to profit off of Apple's platform without paying royalties. You also don't see Steam on the Epic Store. They want to ride on Apple's success. So does Microsoft after their failed Windows phones and their push for digital services on Apple's platform.
What if Nintendo or Sega would have bought up third parties during the height of their success at home and in the arcade. That would have made it difficult for an outsider like Sony to enter the game business. That would mean all the success Sony has had over the last 25 years wouldn't exist. That would have been a bad lock out.
I hope gamers see what I'm saying. If it's your platform, you have a right to do whatever on your platform like lock others out from profiting on your platform free from abiding by your rules. Apple wasn't locking Epic out. Apple wanted payments of royalties based on their rules on their platform. Epic didn't like the rules they signed and went around it.
There's also lock outs that are bad by locking content to one platform. If everyone was enjoying multiplatform content, and you buy it up to only have it for yourself, that's bad. Microsoft is guilty of that as they buy big publishers. But this guilty company wants to back Epic to give both of them free reign on Apple's platform. Crazy right?
Microsoft loves breaking down barriers to forcing their crappy sub services onto every medium they can push their malware onto. As a consumer I have chosen some Apple products because they are closed ecosystems. If I wanted an MS phone and platform I’d have bought one, but they didn’t offer a competitive product. That’s free market. Trying to “Epic” their way into controlling someone else’s platform is pretty lame.
Just a bunch of opportunists. Non of these people really want Apple to be taking down a notch or two, they just either want money or… well that's really it, just money. Same when all these congress people get together and interrogate FB and Twitter. All for show and money cause they're all invested in these tech giants and profiting off them. Which is why it's been such a drawn out battle for right to repair, and why more companies now have been able to get away with locking up products you buy with subscriptions and specific repair shops
Microsoft's about to partake in some of that Lunar New Year Sale Epic has going on. Sorry, did I say some? I meant ALL.
"So, Microsoft! Which games are you interested in getting today?"
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"Sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeit!!! "
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