Why Microsoft doesn't reveal hardware numbers.

[Zkuq]

aLkaLiNE said:

Zkuq said:

I have no idea, I haven't been following the situation because I don't particularly care about the details. I'm sure the numbers are healthy, but they should be far from Sony's.

It just dawned on me that this thread has made it this far with people defending the lack of numbers in favor of MAU and we don't even know the MAU.

 

Phil Spencer's good. He's real fucking good.

 

Wait, they were at 48 million by January of 2016

https://www.google.com/amp/s/mspoweruser.com/microsofts-xbox-live-now-has-48-million-active-users/amp/?client=safari

 

And 47 million by October of 2016. I wonder how it's changed since then.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.vg247.com/2016/10/20/microsoft-q1-2017-gaming-revenue-declined-5-xbox-live-down-2m-over-last-quarter/amp/?client=safari

Heh, that's actually a really good point. Too bad the numbers are actually available, like you found. Anyway, those sounds like pretty healthy numbers to me, even though there's been some decline.