Why don't Sony and Microsoft update their top selling games every financial period?

[Cerebralbore101]

vonny said:

sales2099 said:

On topic, companies releasing numbers for their games isn’t required on a quarterly statement. It’s better off being told to us via tweets. It’s for gamers who are invested, not for investors.

Like the fiscal quarter that covered August MS said that 1st party was driving a lot of engagement and revenue. That’s covering the 4 games Tell Me Why, Flight Sim, Wasteland 3, and Battletoads. That’s all we really need to know. The stats that Flight Sim sold over 1 million on Steam and played by total 2 million players is a nice bonus. 

But regardless it’s no longer a good metric to list sold when you pushing GP. Seems your criteria is solely meant for PS fans to dissect and use as ammo against Xbox fans online. To MS, they don’t care about “losing sales to Game Pass” they care that you play their games as much as possible. The revenue comes in other ways rather then just upfront like you are used to. 

Yet they still don't report any profits or losses for their gaming division, there's a reason for that.

You beat me to it. Even before gamepass was a thing, they didn't report sales numbers for games or the XB1. They've never wanted people to know just how much they are losing by. Gamepass is just their conveinent excuse.