Microsoft made 15 billion dollars in just 3 months; twice what it cost to buy Bethesda.
Microsoft reaps chilling profit figures in the last three months, between its software and hardware division, thanks to Game Pass and the launch of Xbox Series X | S.
Microsoft has found the path to success in the video game market. After a generation of Xbox One with some issues, your jump to the next gen with Xbox Series X | S and the Xbox Game Pass confirmation as a service they catapult the Xbox brand to stardom.
Some earnings data for Microsoft’s gaming division and Xbox Live and Xbox Game Pass subscriber numbers have recently been revealed, confirming that Xbox has iron health. Are already 18 million users using Game Pass on consoles and PC.
But if we talk about Xbox Live, the thing is not far behind. Xbox online gaming service brings together 100 million monthly players, and it seems that this number of users will increase in the coming months, with incentives such as not having to pay the subscription to play free to play games like Fortnite.
Xbox software division increases revenue by 51%, while the hardware division registers an increase of 86%, something logical due to Xbox Series X Launch | S, which have become the brand’s best-selling consoles in their debut, surpassing Xbox 360.
Daniel ahmad, a video game market analyst, affirms that these very good figures could have been even betteras fewer Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S units have been produced per component shortages and the COVID-19 pandemic, compared to when Xbox One was launched in 2013.
One thing that can be inferred from the figures, which isn’t really surprising, is that Xbox didn’t ship as many Series X | S consoles as they did Xbox One’s in the same timeframe.
This has been reflected in global sell through data too. Mainly due to production it seems.
– Daniel Ahmad (@ZhugeEX) January 26, 2021
So that you stop to think about the scandalous amount of benefits that Microsoft has obtained in the last 3 months, note that the Redmond people paid 7.5 billion dollars to get ZeniMax, which includes Bethesda and other studios.
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Well Microsoft has obtained twice that amount in 3 months, that is to say, $ 15.5 billion. In other words, Xbox could have bought two studios the size of Bethesda with just the profits made in the last quarter.
At the moment we don’t know how many exact units of Xbox Series X | S have been sold, beyond the 1.7 million figures that were recorded in its launch week. Phil Spencer has already said that he will not reveal this data, even if it outperforms the competition.
Source: GameSpot
