Global Hardware Dec 13-19 - Switch Sales Top 75M, PS5 Tops 4M

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derpysquirtle64 said:

dmillos said:

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.

What that graph shows is growth. But growth alone is not representative of anything. As that graph shows while yes, there is some growth in revenue, it is very small and its not even every year, its only for 2 years and then its nearly flat. Thats not good at all. THese companies like to see a steady growth wich the xbox division is not showing. 

Another importing metric needed is investment. With out that this graph means nothing. This increase in revenue could mean nothing if they spend more trying to get there. And as we all know, gamepass canot be cheap neither is all the studios they have bought out and now they are about to buy zenimax. 

So you are right. Consoles sold and/or subs is a more important metric cuz people buy once but keep spending on software for consoles, while subs they can sub a month and quit or be permanent, but MS wont disclose any of that info just that pointless unique players wich could as well mean they all subed for 1$ and never again. But yes, more consoles does mean faster gowth unlike the flat line we are seing from the xbox division.