Microsoft CFO Tim Stuart has defined why the PlayStation vs. Xbox console gross sales conflict isn’t a factor for the corporate anymore. Microsoft beforehand conceded the {hardware} gross sales race, stating on quite a few events that it’s in third place.
Microsoft is wanting past PlayStation vs Xbox {hardware} efficiency
Talking on the latest Wells Fargo 2023 TMT Summit (through GameSpot), Stuart mentioned that {hardware} gross sales now not mirror how the Xbox model is doing general. Microsoft stopped asserting console gross sales fairly some time in the past, whereas Sony and Nintendo proceed to reveal this info to traders and most of the people.
“At first, it was like, ‘What are you doing?’ ‘You’re the Xbox enterprise, and also you’re not giving us console [sales numbers], that is not sensible,’” Stuart recalled the conversations surrounding Xbox’s resolution to cease asserting {hardware} gross sales. “But it surely was actually the primary level of us saying, no, no, it’s about content material and providers.”
Microsoft has been stressing the significance of content material and providers for quite a lot of years now — most just lately throughout its authorized battles towards regulators who needed to forestall its acquisition of Activision Blizzard. The corporate additionally mentioned that Xbox’s future is determined by Sport Go’s development, highlighting its want to accumulate content material.
