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Microsoft says Xbox has less than half the MAUs of PlayStation
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TLZ
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Sorry bro. That chic in your avatar is 100x hotter though.
mckmas8808
Mckmaster uses MasterCard to buy Slave drives
This is literally what they are doing. And the 50 million MAUs number is the "REAL" number anyway.
MaxwellParrish
Member
Pretty sure it couldn't because is not even published by Sony, even less Playstation, but I think that instead the players of Minecraft on Playstation and Switch can certainly count in the XBox MAUs
I think for Sony to count MLB on Xbox they would need to require PSN login.
Loxus
Member
My bad, thought you were trying to say 55m vs 112m was right without including Xbox PC.
KungFucius
King Snowflake
Is it possible that one number is users, the other is units? So 120 million users across all consoles and PC but 55 million active Xbox consoles?
Slicker than your average
Banned
We need the Xbox damage control team In here.
pasterpl
Member
Vsfrom the CMA report
PlayStation reports their MAUs to be around 100 to 110 million, depending on the quarter
so Microsoft are saying Xbox has less than 50-55 million MAUs
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Not the same thing.
Sony's "it can't be sold because we need to continue profiting from another company's products and use regulators to maintain our lead position" is much more hilarious if you aren't a fanboy either way.
Heisenberg007
Gold Journalism
How? Explain the differences.
RGB'D
Member
I would hardly think that they would have to show PC plus console as MAUs when presenting to CMA. They likely would try to make the comparison to PS (who is only in the console space) so direct Xbox Consoles vs PS
JLB
Banned
There are so much Sony trolling squad that no one else fits here!
balls of snow
Member
Wonder if ms exec keep shitting their pants everytime their lawyers say they need to disclose something to whatever governing body that needs to be appeased.
digoutyoursoul
Member
I have only two pairs of Marvel Avengers Underwear myself.
Get out
Dick Jones
Gold Member
CMA are looking at gaming in total and not just consoles. If MS are sending you a comment saying they have 55 to 60m monthly users and also publicly saying 120m users, then the CMA are less likely to believe your stats.
Ar¢tos
Member
So players that use the same MS account on pc and console are conveniently counted as pc MAUs only?
But to brag they are counted 2x to inflate numbers?
RGB'D
Member
Eh it's corporate America. I'm sure that isn't a stretch for them to inflate like this
yurinka
Member
Makes to have a console MAU 2:1 sense since the console sales difference for the two currently active console generations is also slightly above 2:1from the CMA report
PlayStation reports their MAUs to be around 100 to 110 million, depending on the quarter
so Microsoft are saying Xbox has less than 50-55 million MAUs
If they would want to be transparent they'd share the XBL MAU for all platforms (the number they typically share) plus also specify how many of them were active in console (the number shared by CMA), how many of them were active on PC and on mobile.
The MAU data shared by MS in the reports like the one you linked is XBL MAU from consoles+PC+mobile.
The MAU data shared by the CMA is XBL MAU from consoles only.
MS doesn't lie with the numbers on their financial reports, they only carefully choose which ones they show, and show some of them in a way that makes them look in the best possible way.
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RoboFu
One of the green rats
That was good movie as well.
