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derpysquirtle64 on 05 January 2021
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dmillos said:
Elputoxd said:

The Xbox division has never been as succesful as it is now, which is the main reason Nadella trusts Spencer and promoted him to Vice President of Gaming at Microsoft in 2018 and also gave the division a huge budget increase that same year. So, at least financially and economically, 2020 has been the best year ever for Xbox.

Whether one likes the games they make or not is another matter entirely, but this is the objective data we have.

Thank you very much for sharing this graph, it immediatelly made me think that this was counter intuitive based on console sales, so I added to this graph the total consoles sold on each Fiscal year in order to see what that looks like:

As expected, console sales have gone down considerably while at the same time revenue has gone up a great deal. 

This brings a couple of questions to mind that hopefully we can discuss:

1) Is it realistic to think Game pass could be implemented on other consoles like Nintendo or PlayStation?

2) If Game pass is able to go to other Consoles, is there a reason to have an Xbox Console?

3) What does PlayStation and Nintendo revenue look like? Is Xbox showing the highest growth of the three main consoles?

To be fair, this graph is totally incorrect. It's like comparing apples to oranges. People who bought consoles in let's say FY16 will not suddenly stop investing their money in FY17. So, the better graph would be the number of total consoles sold by certain FY. This will give a better representation.