Although Xbox’s personal {hardware} marketshare has quickly and persistently declined lately, Microsoft is constant to see spectacular progress. The corporate has totally transitioned into being a multiplatorm writer, having launched a number of main first-party Xbox titles for PlayStation and Nintendo Swap over the past 12 months (the previous particularly)- and is now reaping the advantages.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella revealed (by way of Tom Warren on Twitter) within the firm’s current quarterly fiscal briefing that for Q3 of fiscal 12 months 2024-25, which ran from January to the top of March, Xbox was the “high writer” by pre-orders and pre-installs not solely on the Xbox Retailer, but in addition the PlayStation Retailer. Having lined up the likes of Age of Mythology: Retold, Forza Horizon 5, and Indiana Jones and the Nice Circle for the PS5 within the early months of 2025, that doesn’t come as an enormous shock.
In the meantime, PC Sport Cross additionally noticed a forty five p.c year-on-year bump in its income, whereas cloud gaming surpassed a collective 150 million hours performed by its total userbase, setting a report and marking the primary time that it has seen these numbers. Considerably, throughout all first-party Microsoft titles on all platforms (so additionally together with PlayStation, Swap, and cell along with Xbox and PC), the corporate noticed over 500 million month-to-month lively customers through the quarter.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella on Xbox for Q3, 2025:
• “Ended the Q as the highest writer by preorders and preinstalls on each Xbox and PlayStation Retailer.”
• PC Sport Cross income up 45% YoY
• Cloud gaming new report: surpassing 150 million hrs performed for the first time this Q pic.twitter.com/xmWBMvrU8E— Tom Warren (@tomwarren) April 30, 2025
Xbox video games attain over 500 million month-to-month lively customers
PC Sport Cross income up +45%
— Derek Strickland (@DeekeTweak) April 30, 2025
