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Xbox calendar Q4 2015 financial results: MAUs soar 30% to record 48 million
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Darth Mau brings all this hate.
AnthonypUK
Member
Lower hardware revenue in the biggest quarter of the year for hardware sales isnt good.,
MAUst impressive
Crimson_Gold
Member
MAUbe? MAUbe not
Yeah but probably split the cost a bit. Like maybe MS would pay Walmart $15 out of the $30 gift card they gave out since Walmart gets some benefit from giving out a gift card as it forces the consumer to come back to the store to use it at a later date.
This year seems like MS ate all the cost themselves as I don't remember seeing all that many (if any) gift card offers in addition to the $299 price.
But X360 sales can't be so much in decline to cause such a drop in Xbox hardware revenue cuz X360 sales are low WW in past 1.5-2 years anyway. So, Xbone price were almost the same in 2014. and 2015. and probably Xbone sales WW compared to previous quarter are flat or lower.
But they made more overall revenue and that's the most important factor.
DustyVonEric
Member
MS MAU is a beast!
Dash_Riprock
Member
People are shitting MS for using MAU, but look at us: endlessly debating an all but meaningless number that can be spun in either direction depending on where your biases lie.
Clearly its working as intended.
Clearly its working as intended.
they will just be showing off whats coming out in spring as they've shown next to nothing of them. i wouldn't expect any pc announcements.
The Mad Draklor
Member
Why MAUst you tease us like that?
Liabe Brave
Member
The Xbox One isn't even picking up its own slack. In order to sell more in 2015 they had to drop the price, but the resulting increase in sales wasn't even enough to cover that loss, much less the continued decline of 360.
mejin
Member
lol it really isn't.
Dash_Riprock
Member
It gives a guise of success to those that want it too, so yes it is.
Glad to hear that, well deserved for Xbox, i'm also enjoying my Surface pro 4 a lot, what a great all in one device, it's a shame instead that Lumia phones sales are een lower than before, I've got a 950XL and I like it a lot, it would be sad if Microsoft had to shut down the phones division, I think windows 10 mobile has a great potential, and hardware wise Lumia are pretty good too
Shpeshal Nick
aka Collingwood
They did drop the price. So technically they could have sold more but taken a hit due to the price drop. I get why you'd see it the way you do, but I'm just saying.
eerik9000
Member
Obviously.
Price were almost the same in 2014 and in 2015.
tattooed_dwarf
Member
Lol, that sounds like sales talk! But seriously, I like Lumias too.
Mau this, mau that:
Because δ$30 adds up to a boatload when you sell a couple million Bone Zones.
Are you referring to $299 v. $329?
Because δ$30 adds up to a boatload when you sell a couple million Bone Zones.
cyber_ninja
Member
Would be nice if MS stopped playing Cats and MAUs and released the numbers.
KZObsessed
Member
Long live Chairman MAU
tattooed_dwarf
Member
It wasn't the same, and not WW either.
at this point there's no way for them to catch up, so what is the point in releasing exact sales numbers? just to get picked on?
LegendofLex
Member
MS also says Xbox One HW revenues alone are down YOY (i.e. without considering Xbox 360 revenues). They also specifically said Xbox One unit sales were higher but the prices were lower.
I think it's worth noting that they mention Xbox 360 declines are having an impact on hardware revenue as well (which they wouldn't need to do if the higher Xbox One unit sales were making up for the 360 decline).
Liabe Brave
Member
It's versus Q4 of 2014, not Q3 of 2015. It does include Live accounts on Windows 10.
But not the exact same. Again, the report specifically says they sold more units of Xbox One (but for lower revenue). It's pointless to try and figure out the exact numbers, anything anyone says will be total guesswork.
Shpeshal Nick
aka Collingwood
The bulk of Xbox One sales (especially in the US) come at holiday time. No coincidence that also happens to be when all the biggest discounted deals/bundles happen. So not really.
Combine that with what we can only assume is a sharp decline in the sales of the hugely overpriced 360 and it's easy to see that those two factors caused the drop. The 360 would be selling for a HUGE profit given the absurd price they sell for. So a sharp decline in 360 sales would greatly affect revenue and especially profit.
They really need to get that disc less Apple TV version of the 360 out the door.
Dash_Riprock
Member
Why? So Sony can then release their numbers and make MS look like chumps? Lets us never forget the "Playstation Family" shit Sony pulled when the 360 was kicking its ass stateside.
cyber_ninja
Member
"Playstation Family" or not at least they gave us some kind of numbers.
LiquidMetal14
hide your water-based mammals
Good for them
bitbydeath
Gold Member
Family is so last gen, next you'll be expecting to play games with your family too!
You know what they say "MAU is better"
According to this graph it's actually 9 million new users from q3 2015 or q1 2016 in MS financial calendar. Win 10 results were delayed to this quarter so it does look like Win10 is the main reason.
Has this been confirmed? Platform specific or agnostic?
If so MAU is more a joke than I anticipated.
I wouldn't mind some Xbox Family numbers.
Omnistalgic
Member
yup, I have a few lumia phones as backups and tried the surface pro 3 for a week before sending it back. Ms makes good hardware, problem is there software is too bloated for average consumers IMO. The pen experience was not as reliable or helpful as I was expecting, Windows still has a lot of catching up to do. I think there phones are just too late to the party, so many apps not supported on it, and honestly, I think IOS and Android satisfies most users for choice.
Windows 10 was a great improvement.
Yeah, they went with that.
So around $4 billion in gaming revenue.
Mikey Jr.
Member
No Man, Hell no.
McDonaldsAU
Lol, I remember this.
"ohhh French fry, you so crazzzzy lollolol"
D'ultimate
Member
Quarter after quarter MS releases results that the market likes and reacts to positively (shares are up 3% after the news) yet you wouldn't know it by reading the gaming side of NeoGAF.
Nothing but negative spin and whining about not getting exact numbers. Let it go people. How long have they been doing this now? And why should they change? Just to provide fodder for angry internet warriors?
Billions of dollars in profit. Oh shit, the end is near!
Nothing but negative spin and whining about not getting exact numbers. Let it go people. How long have they been doing this now? And why should they change? Just to provide fodder for angry internet warriors?
Billions of dollars in profit. Oh shit, the end is near!
DriftingSpirit
Member
I don't see that. I see praising of MAU.
generally on the gaming side of things, posters are more interested in the performance of the gaming side of Microsoft's business. the market cares about the bottom line and growth of Microsoft as a whole.
no one is suggesting that Microsoft is in trouble as a company
People who connected to the service in the last month through Xbox 360 or Xbox One.
It was either get shit on for not releasing the numbers or actually release the numbers and have an all out shit show of a fuck fest for Hells holiday. They chose the better route. It would be nice to have numbers as I'm sure a lot of us are interested but...yeah.
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