Too many people here taking the CRAZY pills. There is no correlation between how MS details their earnings and how MS plans to deal with XBox itself long term. Like many companies, MS groups a number of their divisions together for internal and external reporting. Because MS is reorganizing as a company, this only makes sense.
The reason MS is skipping talking about individual product sales is real simple... They truly aren't focused on that. THey have made it clear that they want a single ecosystem on all of their devices - Windows 10. So, the only real measure for that is Xbox Live useage. When people mention that MS will not ever overtake Steam, I just laugh. Steam doesn't provide you with anything other than a convenient place to buy mostly older PC games at a discount and even then, it is based on DRM. The whole point behind Win10 is to get people on the MS ecosystem. Why would anybody truly go over to Steam if the same game at the same price was available in the WIn10 app store? Loyalty? Yeah right, there is no such thing.
MS will build the Win10 app store up slowly through the mass market adoption of Win10. Do gamers have to delete their Steam accounts? NO. But, just like people have accounts with Apple or Google or MS or Steam, they will have them in multiple places. Over time, there will be less and less need to go to Steam and then it will slowly shrink. It probably will not go away and we should hope it doesn't as it will keep MS honest in their app store.
It is near the end of the end....
