"while operating income was $38.0 billion, up 24% year-on-year"
Between last year's Q1 vs this year's Q1, Microsoft laid off ~17.000 employees.
Congrats to their operating income being up 24%.
Am I the only one wondering?
How can their Q1 '26 sit at $5.5 billion in revenue?
When GP makes 5bn revenue annually (annually!), when hardware keeps declining and declining for 25 months straight now, when software sales are eaten by D1 GP, etc.
How's that possible? From what?
Man ... I don't know dude.
>>Following Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard, Nadella noted that the company is now the world’s largest game publisher<<
By what metric?
ABK was the largest 3rd party publisher by revenue before aquisition.
By what metric is now Microsoft the world's largest publisher?
So ... what's the metric specifically within the Microsoft Gaming Division?
That ain't metrics. That's a portfolio sheet.
When Nadella describes Microsoft as today's biggest publisher:
Can someone please tell me by what metric(s)?
Genuine question.
@software
No worries, apology accepted (but wasn't needed).
To sum my reaction up:
I fundamentally disagree with you.
The portion of 3rd party software that's being released over the course of a systems lifecycle, surpasses the quantity of 1st games by far.
Despite XGS now owning 26 former 3rd party IPs - to which I absolutely, with no hesitation whatsoever, highly (!) doubt that Microsoft i...
Because he's probably getting some royalties out of it, which is fine & right.
They can.
But don't combine it with their strengths.
HD2 has identity. I don't think Concord had. And Marathon seemed lacking it, too.
"For example, if Halo sells“
Please, stick to my question. Only one time.
I was clearly talking about 3rd party software. Halo is a 1st party game. So it's obvious they'll earn money from games THEY publish.
But what about 3rd party games sold through Steam, Epic, GOG?
You know - 3rd party. The biggest portion of revenue for consoles.
"[...] and even be profitable ..."
Seriously, no ripping:
I'm looking forward to the portion where they unfold the mystery about how Microsoft Gaming Division will be able to earn revenue out of 3rd party software sales.
IF they allow Steam, Epic, GOG, etc.
The Xbox consoles so far earned them a solid 30% share every (!) time a game was sold. Even from microtransactions. Because it all went through Xbox ...
As far as official statements & leaks are telling, PS6 is going to be the more sophisticated approach in hardware specs, as well as the Amethyst pipelines in close collab with AMD, with probably another powerful SSD inhouse tech and improved Tempest 3D audio.
Drilled for cost reduction and low power consumption.
Whereas Xbox Next is shaping up to be a power APU right from the catalogue of AMD, mixed with Windows and an Xbox environment to run Xbox gam...
Extrapolation and Interpolation are useful tools for understanding concepts.
Let's use Interpolation first:
• If there's only 1 console being sold, chances are close to zero that any game could become a million-seller pouring millions in revenue.
Now let's switch to Extrapolation:
• If there's, let's assume, 100 million consoles being sold, chances are close to, 80, 90 or even 100% that any game co...
"Not budged, if i want i can buy pc for 10k“
Yeah. That's my second point above, like "or only even want to spend a specific budget".
But console gaming, no matter the direction of people's reasons, is a budget choice.
There's been a market for "a gaming box cheaper than a top gaming PC" for almost 40 years now.
And it will continue to exist.
A console primarily is a choice by budget. And people have
• different budgets and
• only even want to spend different budgets
I think it's a bad business choice them leaving the console business.
And in turn a good business choice from Sony to keep building a classic home console with PS6. (Which I highly doubt won't even exceed nor even touch PS5 Pro's release price.)
When they bought Zenimax ...
Yeah, you must know.
Because at Xbox, appearantly, neither games nor awards pay any bills.
But mommy Microsoft does.
I can only apologize.
The number of times an Xbox game didn't win anything and wasn't game of the year have become sooo ... many, that I always mix it up.
It's so confusing with Playstation's dozens of game of the year awards and dozens of nominations all across the 'Big Four'.
Help me - when was Xbox' last overall game of the year again?! Has there been any ever?
No?
Aww...
Oh, excuse me, really!
You mean it got published too late in 2021 and was therefore in the roll for VGA 2022?
Where Xbox biggest game, Halo Infinite, again received zero nominations (nor, consequently, any awards) in any category? But Playstation's did ... again!?
THAT Halo Infinite?
Now I got it!
Oh what did you say? Infinite was released in 2021?
Sorry, my bad, then of course I meant:
Halo Infinite, the Xbox game that didn't receive any nominations nor awards in any category in 2021.
But Playstation's did ... again.
Oh you mean Halo Infinite?
The Xbox game that in 2020 didn't even got nominated for game of the year, but Playstation's Ghost of Tsushima did?
Got it.
https://youtu.be/YDlRY1Wf-n...