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> Nobody really wants to use their store. Their hardware is a cute little side hustle.

*XBox and Microsoft gaming's $23.5b revenue (~10% of MS's total) enter the chat*

You were saying something about not letting facts get in the way of a preferred narrative, I believe?

xbox is a catch-it-umbrella that includes all the studios bought, and game pass. The xbox hardware sales are beyond appalling[0], $220m a quarter, and it'd be below $1b yearly. That's revenue - the consoles have pretty terrible profit margin by design. (likely negative when it comes to xbox)

No need for snarky remarks.

[0]: https://www.tweaktown.com/news/111349/xbox-hardware-revenue-...

You realize it's a whole thing, right?

Being a console ecosystem owner doesn't work if one doesn't have a console?

Hence why it makes sense to look at their gaming division revenue as a whole: a large part of that revenue is attributable to shipped to date XBox units.

I wouldn't be surprised if most of that revenue is PlayStation. That's why they've been porting their entire catalog over, claimed the end of exclusives etc.

Last I heard the current Xbox generation has sold less than the last, at approximately 30 million. This gives it about 1/3rd the sales of Sony.

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