Xbox sales down 17%, XBL users up 28% to 39M

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Xbox Live monthly active users (MAU) grew 28% to 39 million during Microsoft’s last financial quarter, the company reported today; however, due to a decrease in Xbox 360 sales, revenue from consoles sales declined.

Gaming revenue increased slightly, as growth in revenue from Xbox Live and video games was offset in part by lower Xbox hardware revenue.

Xbox Live revenue increased 17%, driven by both higher volumes of transactions and revenue per transaction. Video games revenue grew 66%, driven by sales of Minecraft.

Xbox hardware revenue decreased 17%, mainly due to lower volumes of Xbox 360 consoles sold. Video games revenue grew 66%, driven by sales of Minecraft.

The Personal Computing segment, in which Xbox and Windows 10 is housed, reported $9.4 billion in revenue (down 17%) compared to $11.2 billion year-over-year. Xbox consoles were previously housed in the Consumer Devices division.

Revenue in the entire sector (devices which include mobile, Windows) decreased $1.9 billion mainly due to lower revenue from Devices and Windows, offset in part by higher search advertising revenue. An unfavorable foreign currency impact of approximately 4% also affected the division.

Microsoft said for the quarter ending September 30, net income came in at $4.62 billion compared to $4.54 billion year-over-year.

Revenue fell $20.38 billion from $23.20 billion year-over-year.

Posted: Oct 22, 2015 4:38 pm
Related Forum: Xbox Forum

Source: http://www.vg247.com/2015/10/22/microsoft-fy16-q1-xbox-live-monthly-active-users-up-28-to-39-million/

Comments

LukeGPosted: Fri. Nov 13, 2015

Call me stupid but this just confuses me.

SkyPosted: Mon. Nov 02, 2015

GuzLe That is crazy. I see why PS4 is going crazy right now though.

the xbox is going crazy in a bit mate , just watch

SkittlePosted: Fri. Oct 30, 2015

It will get to a point when their sales are very low.. Because everyone will already have one

GuzLePosted: Wed. Oct 28, 2015

That is crazy. I see why PS4 is going crazy right now though.

ProPosted: Wed. Oct 28, 2015

I personally think they should stop selling xbox 360 consoles. For the same price you would be able to get yourself a second hand Xbox one console!

GossipPosted: Mon. Oct 26, 2015

The title made no sense to me then I read and when it said 360 sales went down it made sense to me, but they should really stop selling them. They remind me of like a gamecube now.

GTTPosted: Mon. Oct 26, 2015

meh, xb360 are dated ps4 now boi

SkyPosted: Sun. Oct 25, 2015

JTH Well 360's aren't the new thing anymore so I'm not suprised that sales have gone down.

360 are getting old , but i still love them :p

BondsPosted: Sun. Oct 25, 2015

Well 360's aren't the new thing anymore so I'm not suprised that sales have gone down.

JastyPosted: Sun. Oct 25, 2015

Those sales are probably going to sky-rocket in the holiday season; all these new bundles I couldn't see any negative impact, and live sales will probably increase also. Can't wait too see the next report on this.

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