Giuseppe Nelva
Nadella claimed leadership in North America among next-gen (actually current-gen) consoles for three quarters in a row, mentioning that Microsoft sold more consoles life-to-date than any previous generation of Xbox.
He also revealed that 4 million people have streamed Fortnite on Xbox Cloud Gaming, and 1 million among them were new to the Xbox ecosystem.
Hood prefaced the reveal of the outlook by mentioning that it does not include the impact of the acquisition of Activision, which Microsoft still expects to close by the end of this fiscal year (March 2023).
And with Xbox Cloud Gaming, we are bringing games to new ene points. Players now can stream Xbox games on Samsung Smart TVs.
And we partnered with epic games to make Fortnite available for free via the browser. Over 4 million. People have streamed, the game to date, including over 1 million who were new to our ecosystem.”
Gaming revenue for the current quarter (between July and September 2022) is expected to decline in the low-to-mid single digits driven by decline in first-party content partly offset by the growth of Game Pass subscribers and consoles.
Xbox Content and services revenue is expected to decline in the low-to-mid single digits as well.
If you’re interested in Microsoft’s financial performance (especially in regards to the Xbox business) you can check out our dedicated article from earlier today.
