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Satya Nadella: Xbox now have over 500 million monthly active users
Venom Snake
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What are they using tho?
ShaiKhulud1989
Gold Member
Ah, classical Microsoft. Take a useless impressive number and boast it without any semblance of context to distract people away from very pathetic financial results they are published earlier.
In fact why stop here? Release an Office light on Xbox and count every Office user too. Xbox monthly users will crack a billion in an instant.
In fact why stop here? Release an Office light on Xbox and count every Office user too. Xbox monthly users will crack a billion in an instant.
Mibu no ookami
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He pioneered Microsoft into cloud services which increased their revenues significantly... Azure has completely changed their business...
Mibu no ookami
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Candy Crush has over 250 million active players a month. CoD has over 70 million.
What he is doing is counting all of these and probably double counting a bit when combining those numbers with GamePass, Microsoft Store, and Xbox, as well as players on PS5, Switch, and Steam who play Microsoft games.
The fact that they're doing dumb shit like this suggests to me that Phils days are numbered. He isn't hitting any meaningful KPIs if you have to make up a new metric like this. Nadella will have to report real numbers to the board internally, and they're not going to be seeing growth.
For what it is worth for this quarter, I'm sure PlayStation has missed their numbers sizably as well, hence the last minute sales.
What he is doing is counting all of these and probably double counting a bit when combining those numbers with GamePass, Microsoft Store, and Xbox, as well as players on PS5, Switch, and Steam who play Microsoft games.
The fact that they're doing dumb shit like this suggests to me that Phils days are numbered. He isn't hitting any meaningful KPIs if you have to make up a new metric like this. Nadella will have to report real numbers to the board internally, and they're not going to be seeing growth.
For what it is worth for this quarter, I'm sure PlayStation has missed their numbers sizably as well, hence the last minute sales.
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nowhat
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Crack, most likely.
TheGodfather07
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Microsoft literally scraping the bottom of the barrel to put out something positive about xbox.
Killjoy-NL
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So, did they reach the required 100M GamePass subs?
Fess
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This is all platforms combined. Xbox, Playstation, Switch, Windows Store, Steam, iOS, Android. Anywhere you can play their games.
Still impressive and a good base for a digital platform era.
But Xbox, the console, is clearly dead now going by the earnings report. Already buried. The numbers fir Series was like late generation last year and like a new generation has launched now, only without a new generation starting. Historical failure, worse than WiiU. Nintendo was at least fast up on their feet again with Switch.
Still impressive and a good base for a digital platform era.
But Xbox, the console, is clearly dead now going by the earnings report. Already buried. The numbers fir Series was like late generation last year and like a new generation has launched now, only without a new generation starting. Historical failure, worse than WiiU. Nintendo was at least fast up on their feet again with Switch.
Little Chicken
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The future is Xbox 
Mibu no ookami
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LordCBH
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#MARKETLEADER
DJ12
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And if PS had 128 mau Xbox would be 505.
Surely someone has pointed this out to him on twitter already lol
LordCBH
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Doesn’t matter. Colt is too retarded to understand that Xbox’s “hard work” to get these users is just opening the checkbook to buy half the industry instead of actually elevating their brand and releasing things customers actually want.
Like what is the actual point in this strategy? “Look we have 500m MAU’s but don’t look at our hardware sales or the money we’re losing on the brand.”
Mibu no ookami
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Colt Eastwood has moved beyond parody at this point. He is signaling that he isn't looking to pivot to a general audience. He's going down with the ship regardless of what it costs him. He must feel certain that this audience will stick with him even for a PC based Xbox and GamePass.
- Candy Crush - 250 million
- Minecraft - Over 140 million
- CoD - 70 million
- Xbox - probably about 50 million
Nadella has never signaled harder that Xbox is dead than by putting the numbers forward like this. If that is their new metric, then expanding that number means EVERYTHING and the only way to do that is more multiplatform releases.
Daniel_Mallorca1985
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Microsoft ON Xbox./cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25418236/STK095_MICROSOFT_CVirginia_B.jpg)
Microsoft’s cloud revenues rule again in Q4, as Surface continues to dip
Office and cloud are strong for Microsoft’s revenues.www.theverge.com
Record-breaking engagement
Mibu no ookami
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Start the countdown to Sony/Microsoft Halo Remake Bundle with an Xbox style PS5 Controller...
Daniel_Mallorca1985
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The future is Xbox
NO. Dead Xbox.
DJ12
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Halo outsourced to bungie lol
Mokus
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What else could Nadella do other than spin the numbers with a smile on his face just like Phil Spencer for the last 10 years? Almost everybody knows by now that the Xbox brand is slowly dying at this point. It's pretty much throwing shit to the wall and see what sticks. I can only imagine how hard is to face investors after burning through over 70 billion USD and the results after only a year are even worse for the Xbox division.
Frwrd
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Skifi28
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Closing the app also counts as engaging with xbox so make that 2.
jm89
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FTFYThe future is third party publisher microsoft gaming
Mibu no ookami
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Possibly in the future if Marathon fails, but not for this remake, which I think will be developed by 343i.
Mibu no ookami
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I don't think Nadella cares about hardware sales anymore or even in the short term the related royalty sales from software.
He is looking at the bigger picture which is software sales and subscription sales. Will not be surprised if we get a version of GamePass on PSN that does not include 3rd party games.
kikii
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StueyDuck
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This man (child?) Must have the most genuinely saddest life.
I actually kind of feel sorry for them.
Hudo
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He'd fit right in here!
StereoVsn
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Yeah, let’s separate their software and cloud business divisions, which they run with ruthlessness and focus from their gaming and hardware divisions.
The latter ones are suffering but cloud revenue grew 29%. Hence $22bil profit in a quarter.
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vaibhavpisal
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Pedro Motta
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Mibu no ookami
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Just saying Nadella could shutter Xbox entirely and he'll still be one of the greatest CEOs of all time...
Shake Your Rump
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Gaming revenue up 61%, however Activision alone is 58%. The secret to increasing revenue is to just buy other companies, apparently.
That 80 billion is carrying them. How long until that investment pays for itself?
That 80 billion is carrying them. How long until that investment pays for itself?
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ReBurn
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They're probably counting the people who download the solitaire app to play on PC since that isn't preinstalled on Windows anymore and interacts with Xbox achievements.You can't cant every windows install just because the Xbox app is built in ...
alphachino
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fuck microsoft, don't believe their lies
alphachino
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2 billion + 1... my uncle only had one eye after an accident and he opened the Xbox app once, I know that for a fact.Gosh that is the most moronic spin I've seen from any of these companies
Why stop at 500 million?
We estimate that 2 billion human eyeballs have actively engaged in xbox
Tiago Rodrigues
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500 million monthly active users lmao.
The world population is around 8b people...if 500 million already are active users of Xbox, that means over 6% of the world population is using an Xbox account every month!
Holy shit!
It surpassed streaming subscription services that are used by the GP like Spotify (over 230M), Netflix (240M).
MS just won everything tech related with these news.
The world population is around 8b people...if 500 million already are active users of Xbox, that means over 6% of the world population is using an Xbox account every month!
Holy shit!
It surpassed streaming subscription services that are used by the GP like Spotify (over 230M), Netflix (240M).
MS just won everything tech related with these news.
ReBurn
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Yeah, the number is a little more believable if you consider they are most likely talking about Xbox the service and not Xbox the console. The bulk of the interaction is probably Candy Crush and the solitaire collection. Sort of underscores why selling consoles is declining in priority to Microsoft.
