We are in May, so the financial reports of the last four -month period of fiscal yearwhich closed on March 31, are emerging. In this case, Microsoft has shared its results, confirming the good moment that is going through Xbox. And, despite the fall in the sale of brand hardware – which continues to decrease quarter after quarter -, total income from video games and services have registered remarkable growth, becoming along the way into the road to the Mayor Playstation Publishing House.
As we can read, the software impulse has arrived mainly due to the 5 % increase in games by games, driven by titles such as Call of Duty: Black Ops 6, Minecraft and Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, which have reaped a Great performance in All platforms. In fact, in PS5 the results of Dr. Jones’ adventure have been better than expected, managing to sell 100,000 units in just a few days.
In parallel, the Income from Contents and Services They have climbed a 8%exceeding Microsoft’s expectations for the period. In the field of hardwarethe negative trend It remains, with an interannual fall of the 6% in console sales Xbox Series X | s. However, this reduction is perceived as consistent with the company’s multiplatform strategy, which seeks to take its games to as many devices as possible, without depending exclusively on the sale of consoles.
For its part, Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, has celebrated the results, highlighting that Xbox already has “more than 500 million active users Monthly throughout the ecosystem, including own and otherwise devices such as PlayStation “, that is, throughout the Xbox ecosystem, with televisions capable of running Game Pass, Cloud Gaming and PS5. In addition, for the second consecutive trimester, Xbox is positioned as the Editor number one in salesboth in the Microsoft Store as in PlayStation Store.
Minecraft is the most successful game and the one that has grown most from Xbox
One of the great drivers of recent success has been Minecraftwhich has registered a 75 % growth in active users interannuals, also driven by the premiere of your film adaptation. In addition, titles such as Oblivion Remastered, Doom: The Dark Ages and Forza Horizon 5 are among the best selling in the Sony digital store, reflecting the success of the new Xbox release policy.
Together, the quarter has been exceptional for Microsoft: general income grew by 13% year -on -year, the operational income increased by 16% and the net income rose 18%. Xbox, with one increasingly open strategy and ambitious, it seems to have found the Ideal balance between multiplatform expansion and sustained profitability.
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