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Microsoft FY19 Q2 - Gaming Rev. up 8% YoY, Xbox Live MAU at 64m
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Not confused. That same article states that Azure revenue was up 76% last quarter. This quarter was flat, but grew 76%. Also apparently Azure and AWS seem to compare different things, so that could be hard to tell.
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Not trying to troll but apart from Playground games, what talent?
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Not every solitaire player. They're tracking Xbox Live usage so it's every solitaire player that enabled Xbox Live functionality. You don't need to enable XBL to play solitaire.
I honestly don't see nothing that jumps at me. MS is surviving in the gaming division which is good, but seems they're more focused on services and software rathet than hardware. Guess gotta keep the MAU's up. Curious to know the ratio of MAU's between regions. I'd wager USA accounts for probably 75% of MAU's or more.
I'm still waiting for an answer. Like Xbox had am increase in revenue thanks to third party titles, most likely Fortnite. You can't attribute that to Microsoft.
Apart from that what did they even do or release (apart from forza) in the last year?
Interesting report. I wonder if RDR2 is a big driver in the software and services revenue. I'd assume so.
Actually yeah I made a mistake there. I always associate turn 10 with forza even though this year it was horizon's year so I should attribute that to playground games
Sea of Thieves? State of Decay 2? But you already know that do you? You're here just for console wars trolling
I wanted to say, their cloud business is a fucking gold mine. I guess it's even more worth than that.
Many things. Enough things for 12-month trailing revenue of gaming to hit 11.5 billion.
I still can't find anything about Hardware being 2% up or 10% up or 10% down in 2018 vs 2017 in any press coverage of NPD.
They're doing incredible in Cloud. That's clearly the essence of their long term strategy going forward in all their pillars, including gaming.
The funny thing is Microsoft was kind of late to the party in the Cloud business. That's just incredible how the company managed to shift. Nadella deserves lots of credit.
Did those two titles actually do well? Did they do well enough to push Xbox's performance? Did they do well in he last quarter (which is the source of this topic)?
I'm not trolling. I genuinely don't know what big things did Xbox do in the last quarter that we should praise the "talent". Like the earnings call says Xbox revenue is up thanks to third party software
Yeah, okay, lmao.
Anyhow, great numbers. Xbox One may not be winning the "console wars" in terms of hardware units, but their profits are on the rise, which means they are in a good place and shareholders are probably happy, which ultimately means more goodness for us down the line. Them buying studios left and right, investing in services hard and getting that power advantage back is no coincidence, and the fact that they are increasing profits even despite all this is very good news for gamers in general. You may like MS or not but it'd be bad if them (or Sony, or Nintendo) left the console field.
Turn10 has contributed to Horizon since day 1 so you're not exactly wrong in your thinking. It's always been a close partnership.
Sales don't really matter anymore with Microsoft since gamepass, and that's awesome. I hate fucking sales talk/threads.
And awesome news! I am BEYOND hyped for stream gaming, so this is great news all around.
Lol. Its good to see them doing well. MS as a company has never been in a better place. Nadella was the right choice.
Highlights from their conference call to discuss the earnings report.
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You have IIRC Welfare for that. :D ( btw. he said +1% ;D )
https://www.resetera.com/threads/de...sday-january-15th.91880/page-36#post-17105706
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Instead of coming into a thread whilst being completely ignorant, next time do a little research, or at least don't post disparaging remarks before you pose a question.
Nice job of actually answering my questions or engaging with my comment.
The talent of the hardware engineers that created X. Hardware is down but think how it could be without the X.
The talent of the people that are working on Game Pass
The talent of the people that are making Xbox Live still attractive.
The talent of the people that are adding features to the Xbox Store that make it more attractive.
The Talent of the studios that have released games for xbox this year because even if the growth is third party titles, because everything adds up.
They don't care about hardware, it's a necessary expense to sell software and services for the time being. It will shrink as a percentage of the Xbox business over time but Xbox revenue and profit will continue to grow.
Profit growing? Source?
Edit: Besides, your basically saying the same thing as me. Though It's not that they don't care. Of course they care lol. Hardware is not doing good thats why they're trying different business models like subscription services, Windows store, Play Anywhere etc
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"will" indicates a prediction based on their strategy and the fact that software and services are high profit margin businesses whereas console sales historically have been loss leaders or low profit margin at the tail end of the cycle.
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The talent of the people who made XB1 backwards-compatible.
The talent of the people who established a unified ecosystem across platforms (a challenge that their competitor seems to be struggling with, since their offering is a fragmented mess).
The talent of being able to keep multiplayer servers online for longer than 2 years.
I mean the quarterly report does support my thesis with games business up overall while the hardware is sagging a little.
It's not rocket surgery.
And besides, what fun is data if you're not using it to extrapolate?
It literally says that even on Hardware they did better than their own internal expectations.
Something I learned this week that I had not realized is that as more purchases are made digitally revenue will automatically go up even with out an increase in unit sales because MS/Sony are now the retailer. So for say a first party game if before one unit was sold at retail for a wholesale price of 40 to 50 dollars digitally that game would be sold for $60 with all revenue going directly to MS/Sony. So in that scenario revenue grew by 20 to 50 percent with no actual change in unit growth. And with 3rd party sales the growth would be even more substantial per unit because at retail MS/Sony would have only booked their liscensing fee as revenue ( a fraction of the wholeslae price) where as now they book the entire $60 as revenue. It kind of makes sense now though why Sony/MS revenues have been skyrocketing as the Gen has progressed and we get more and more stories of higher digital penetration.
At least that's how I understood what Matt was saying. Correct if I'm wrong.
At least that's how I understood what Matt was saying. Correct if I'm wrong.
I am working as an Azure Architect atm, yeah the sky is the limit. Azure still has a lot of growth ahead of it. The place to be :)
+the guys from the controller team. Adaptive controller and Elite, nothing can touch that for quality and innovation.
5+ million have played Sea of Thieves (data from august), 4 million people have played State of Decay 2.
TotallyAzure isn't a close second, and the gap is getting bigger. AWS is growing faster than Azure in absolute numbers.This is from the most recent reinvent.
This chart with no x or y axis or labels of any kind totally proves it
Do those statistics include gamepass plays or are we talking about raw sales?
5+ million people (so separate accounts) have played Sea of Thieves. Who knows how many people have rented the game, played it via their subscription service, bought it in retail or got it via game sharing.
Microsoft does not report sales. Same for Forza Horizon 4: 7 million people played it.
Am I seeing a different image? There is something shown along the 'x axis'.
Also gotta say, pretty good for Xbox's bottom line to have Fortnite locked behind a paywall.
lol. What is your comment, what are you actually trying to say/ask?