Microsoft announced some time ago that it was no longer interested in spreading the numbers of monthly users active on Xbox Live , but with the closing of the last quarter , on September 30, 2019, some very interesting data arrived on the market trend of the Redmond giant. The CEO Satya Nadella, in fact, has revealed that “we have seen a record month, with regard to monthly users active on Xbox Live, with increases both on consoles and on mobile than on PC, as well as a continuous growth in the number of Xbox Game Pass subscribers ».

Previously, Microsoft had anticipated that monthly users active on Xbox Live were talking about 65 million – a number that, therefore, went on to increase further.

To help the online services of Xbox in this positive moment is certainly the excellent Gears 5 : “has seen over three million players only on its first weekend.” And we learn also that “ten years later, Minecraft is stronger than ever, with record revenues and uses: we are bringing this franchise to new people, thanks to Minecraft Earth.”

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The numbers speak of revenue from gaming reduced by 7% for Microsoft, or $ 2.54 billion. This small decline, the company explains, is linked to the slowdown in sales of Xbox hardware, which was physiological at the end of generation – slowed by 34% compared to the previous period. Revenue from content and services for Xbox instead increased by 1% compared to last year.

For the next quarter, Microsoft expects a 20% decrease from its gaming section, due to a further slowdown in sales consoles and for the abundance of third party offers that will arrive. The future, instead, will go through Project xCloud (the idea of ​​Microsoft’s cloud) and Project Scarlett , its next generation console.

Source: VGC