Microsoft report: Game Pass sets new records, sales of gaming hardware dropped by almost a third
Microsoft released its report for the second quarter of fiscal year 2025, which ended on December 31, 2024. The corporation's gaming division showed mixed results.
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- Compared to last year, Xbox revenue decreased by 7%, dropping to $6.58 billion. Microsoft no longer discloses Activision Blizzard's revenues, so it's unknown how much of this amount they are responsible for.
- Sales of consoles and other gaming hardware fell by 29%.
- Sales of Xbox gaming content and services grew by 2% due to an increase in Game Pass subscriptions.
- During a call with investors, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella reported that Game Pass achieved a quarterly revenue record, and the number of subscribers on PC grew by 30%.
- According to Nadella, Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 was the best-selling game on Xbox and PlayStation consoles for October-December 2024. More people played it during its debut quarter than any other premium game in the franchise's history.
- Xbox Cloud Gaming users spent a record 140 million hours gaming on the cloud service during the quarter.
- Microsoft expects that in the next quarter, the overall gaming division revenue will see a slight increase. However, the corporation predicts a further decline in revenue from console and hardware sales.