It doesn’t look like the last few months were good ones for Xbox

Microsoft has revealed stats that show that while the number of Xbox Live users are on the up, hardware is down by a third.

Since they refuse to release any official figures it’s impossible to know exactly how many Xbox One consoles have been sold in the world, but thanks to Microsoft we do know that they made 33% less from those sales compared to last year.

Unofficial estimates put the Xbox One’s global total at around 21 million, well below the roughly 41 million of the PlayStation 4 (but ahead of the Wii U’s 13 million). And it doesn’t sound like that gap is shrinking at the moment.



According to Microsoft’s latest financial report gaming revenue as a whole was down 9% over the last three months, ending June 30. That’s a drop of $152 million on the same time last year.


Things would’ve been even worse if it wasn’t for increased revenue from Xbox Live, which was up 4%. The best news for Microsoft is that Xbox Live monthly active users rose by a whopping 33% people to 49 million worldwide.

The worst news though is that Xbox console revenues dropped by 33%. This was attributed to both a lack of demand and the consoles themselves being cheaper, and therefore bringing in less money. The announcement of the Xbox One S is unlikely to have had much impact, as that only happened in mid-June and these results don’t include July.

If only Microsoft would just release proper sales figures the decline wouldn’t look so bad, but the most positive news for them is that the company itself still made a net profit full the full year of $16.8 billion. So they can afford to take a few losses.

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