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GribbleGrunger on 19 July 2016

Perhaps announcing the Scorpio and putting all their exclusives on the PC has something to do with this:

 

Microsoft’s gaming division is in a slump, and it’s hoping to claw its way out with new hardware coming in August.

Xbox and gaming revenue for Microsoft decreased $152 million during its fiscal fourth quarter. That’s a 9 percent year-over-year decline for the three-month period from April through June. Microsoft points to a decline in consoles sold and a lower average price for the Xbox One as the big reason. That includes some declines for the aging Xbox 360, but the Xbox One is the biggest factor for Microsoft at this time. Console gaming a huge part of the $99.6 billion worldwide gaming industry, but Microsoft is looking to take it on by also combining that segment with its PC-gaming efforts. The company is also planning to launch the slimmer Xbox One S starting at $300 early next month after announcing it in mid-June.

Across all of its businesses, Microsoft was down 4 percent year-over-year, and it points to Xbox One as one of the reasons for that decline.

http://venturebeat.com/2016/07/19/microsofts-xbox-and-gaming-sales-decline-9-on-eve-of-xbox-one-s-release/



 

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barneystinson69 on 19 July 2016
GribbleGrunger said:

Perhaps announcing the Scorpio and putting all their exclusives on the PC has something to do with this:

 

Microsoft’s gaming division is in a slump, and it’s hoping to claw its way out with new hardware coming in August.

Xbox and gaming revenue for Microsoft decreased $152 million during its fiscal fourth quarter. That’s a 9 percent year-over-year decline for the three-month period from April through June. Microsoft points to a decline in consoles sold and a lower average price for the Xbox One as the big reason. That includes some declines for the aging Xbox 360, but the Xbox One is the biggest factor for Microsoft at this time. Console gaming a huge part of the $99.6 billion worldwide gaming industry, but Microsoft is looking to take it on by also combining that segment with its PC-gaming efforts. The company is also planning to launch the slimmer Xbox One S starting at $300 early next month after announcing it in mid-June.

Across all of its businesses, Microsoft was down 4 percent year-over-year, and it points to Xbox One as one of the reasons for that decline.

http://venturebeat.com/2016/07/19/microsofts-xbox-and-gaming-sales-decline-9-on-eve-of-xbox-one-s-release/

Or maybe its because the slim is coming in August? Or maybe because the 360 is discontinued, and the XB1 was priced lower.



Made a bet with LipeJJ and HylianYoshi that the XB1 will reach 30 million before Wii U reaches 15 million. Loser has to get avatar picked by winner for 6 months (or if I lose, either 6 months avatar control for both Lipe and Hylian, or my patrick avatar comes back forever).

GribbleGrunger on 19 July 2016
RolStoppable said:
The reasons for the decline were mentioned by Microsoft themselves and said reasons are reasonable, so there's no need to make wild guesses.

What reasons did they give?



 

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Raven on 19 July 2016
GribbleGrunger said:
RolStoppable said:
The reasons for the decline were mentioned by Microsoft themselves and said reasons are reasonable, so there's no need to make wild guesses.

What reasons did they give?

For starters, one of the reasons bolded in your own OP.

Edit: Actually, calling it your OP is rather inaccurate, as it seems to be a copy/paste of this



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GribbleGrunger on 19 July 2016
RavenXtra said:

For starters, one of the reasons bolded in your own OP.

Oh, yeah lol. I cut and pasted that from GAF and didn't notice. Perhaps this is why they've decided to release the slim earlier.



 

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jungemann on 19 July 2016

there is already a topic about this here:
http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=218707&page=1#



Richmyster6907 on 19 July 2016

We knew thanx to the rumor mill that new consoles were coming for a while. People will obviously wait for them to be out. I myself am waiting for the scorpio.



darkenergy on 19 July 2016

What some people here already said.



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JRPGfan on 20 July 2016

revenue for gameing is down 9%.
revenue for console hardware is down 33%.

And you know what? it doesnt matter, MS makes sooooooo much money they dont care about the peanuts from their console side bussiness.



hadoram2 on 21 July 2016

Banned for no reason? Why?

 

See this:

 

Miyamotoo said:

 Basically, this his post just proves that this thread is just about bitching NIntendo.

Hadoram: uhm no. Thats called beeing objektive and those mentioned things all are facts.

Every company makes mistakes, speeking about them is not "bitching". I know this is hard to understand for fanboys though.

- Moderated, Carl

 

 

So I (hadoram) was banned for what ? Somebody blamed me i would bitch about nintendo by just giving my opinion based on facts. I do this about every company. That called critism.

The moderator need to be a huge fanboy to ban me for this LOL. He should ban the other guy who blamed me, not me by justing responding and explaining/disproving it.

 

At vgchartz: Please remove this moderator.