Microsoft: Turnover with Xbox content and

Xbox Game Studios is a Department of American Software Concerning Microsoft, which is responsible for the development and publication of computer games for the Windows operating system and the in-house game consoles of the Xbox brand. The section acts as a computer game publisher. Previous names of the division were Microsoft Games (2000-2001), Microsoft Game Studios (2001-2011) and Microsoft Studios (2011-2019). The Xbox Game Studios publish video games of various developer studios belonging to Microsoft, such as Mojang Studios, Rare, Ninja Theory, Inxile Entertainment, Bethesda Game Studios or Obsidian Entertainment, but also publish video games from independent developer studios.

Microsoft has published the latest financial figures. They concern the first quarter of the current financial year ended September 30, 2021. Thanks to the continued demand for the Xbox consoles of Series X and Series S, hardware sales increased by 166 percent in the named quarter.

Microsoft s CFO Amy Hood explained in this context that the company was able to deliver more Xbox consoles of Series X and S as expected, even if demand continues to exceed the offer. The bottlenecks will continue for a while. Microsoft s Xbox boss Phil Spencer warned ahead of some time ago that the supply bottlenecks could last until 2022.

Turnover with Xbox content and services barely increases

Microsoft s total revenue from the game area increased by 16 percent - to 3.6 billion dollars in the recent quarter.

Less dynamics showed the pure software range: Turnover with Xbox content and services could only grow by 2 percent. According to Microsoft, there has been a certain growth in the Xbox Game Pass Subscriptions. Recently, however, the RedMonds had to grant that the increase in Xbox Game Pass was lower than expected.

The actual number of Xbox Game pass subscribers keeps Microsoft. The last publicly announced number was 18 million in January 2021.

Ultimately, Microsoft is optimistic. Hood expects Microsoft in the second quarter a revenue growth in Xbox content and services in the middle tens area. The successive Xbox Game Pass publications should be helped, including Forza Horizon 5 and Halo Infinite.

Rising Cloud and Office numbers

In other areas, Microsoft expected expected positive. Sales with the Intelligent Cloud rose by 31 percent year-on-year, including Azure and other cloud services revised sales growth of 50 percent.

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Office also recorded a strong quarter: sales with office products and cloud services for private clients increased ten percent. And the number of Microsoft 365 subscribers climbed by 19 percent to a total of 54.1 million.

All other numbers from the recent annual report can you look at here.

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