Xbox Game Sales and Xbox Live Users Rise, But Hardware Sales Fall

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" Here's what you need to know about MS's earnings report" Unless you're a stockholder, nothing, just play the games you like.

So 360 is dying, and the Bone ain't picking up the slack. Oh, but DLC and microtransaction sales are up!

Just sell the console division already. You shouldn't even be in the business to begin with - you sell operating systems for PCs. Stop competing with yourself.

After all of the XBone fiasco dust settled I figured things would get back to normal or at least level off since the Xbox has become an excellent machine. I guess you truly can destroy a brand with mix messages and absolutely brutal vision by a few suits.

Even though gamers are pretty smart shoppers and a lot know now that the Xbox is a good machine people still go for the PS4. My PS4 has been collecting dust because the Xbox One makes a much better media device/gaming system.

"Game sales grew 66 percent, led by sales of Minecraft" MS is already profiting from the purchase of Minecraft, good for them, but odd that no other games are more successful, since MS has some some pretty decent first-party games.

Ssshhhhhh.......... we don't want X1 to outsell PS4 otherwise all that riff raff, like those who slag off below, will infest our great gaming system..

So many games too play & NXOE coming next month Xbox owners have never had it so good.

Now flame me Sony boys I don't care.....

Make a much smaller box, at least about half the size, and cut the price a little, and I think it might help boost sales quite a bit for a while. That huge box is just so off-putting, imo, and the fact it's not just a wee bit cheaper than the obviously more popular PS4 also makes it a tough call for some people.

The problem is that the Xbox One feels like it's always playing just a little bit of catch up to the PS4 (and like Microsoft is always responding to what Sony does first), not just in sales, and somehow you need to get over that or else it will always be behind.

How big is the last gen market? From that part where hardware sales dipped due to lesser 360s sold, i kinda got the impression there was, or still is, a significant reliance to it by MS in reeling in the $. I'd understand it if it were just a few months upon release of MBOne but it's not

Launch was basically what hurt them, it's a fantastic console now though. 2 years is a long time, even though it really has felt like way less time since 8th gen started.

Wow the XOne is kicking in revenue and the software department.Starting this month when Halo 5 ships the XOne is going to fly off shelves.I remember last holiday they broke all black friday records no doubt it will happen again this year.$20 billion for the quarter that's just insane the amount of money they bring in.Hell microsoft does almost what sony's whole company is worth in a quarter lol

bring back DRM, bring back no cross chat between 360 and xbone, bring back, u cant download your xbla games but your gamer tag can transfer over.

All these reasons and more is why people jumped to ps4, because instead of building on the back of the 360 you tried to see what you could get away with. If u had just done this out of the box instead of stalling the industry by more than 2 years, imagine where we would be now.

and congrats on shutting down vgchartz.com i guess it hurts your sales when everyone can see how your console is selling worldwide.

Nelson Muntz says Ha Ha.

I bet heavily discounting the xone, plus all those giveaways didn't help the bottom line much either.

With families able to digitally share content on the same console over multiple accounts and now with Win10 game streaming it's less likely Xbox homes will have multiple consoles in them. I once had 3 Xbox 360's in my house but today I have 2 PS4's with the intent of letting the other rooms stream games from a single Xbox One on the newly upgraded Win10 PC's. Not that so many people are as forward thinking as that but I wouldn't doubt that scenario becoming more common now that it's possible. But fanboys will still deny the majority of gamers expect 1080p games now more than they once did back in ancient times before there were so many 1080p and 4K panels in homes.

The Xbox One is such a useless gaming console. Thanks god people see this and buy the ps4 instead. No wonder the PS4 is outselling the Bone 5:1.

People can blame the XB1's problems on Don Mattrick all they want. But the truth is, when it comes to gaming consoles, when most people hear 'less powerful' they immediately go looking elsewhere. Hence, the XB1 is not doing too well, at least in comparison to the competition.

Why are they so scared to reveal how few Xbox Ones they sold? Oh, yeah. Because Sony is kicking your ass.

while MS is not my favorite company ( nether is Sony), i think this is the best scenario for gamers.

Let me elaborate:

This gen MS suxs more, at least more then Sony (similar to how Sony suxed the last gen, at least in the start), and the numbers reflect that:

so that (hopefully) means that MS will get smart the next one and take things seriously and to a higher level.

Hopefully, both companies for the next gen will make real consoles with unique architecture that would set them apart from PCs and really make them a worthy platform that is closer to PC standards, just works differently (and much cheaper, due to its limitations).

ATM more then half of the games have double if not triple markets (available for more platforms) with 0 differences between them except graphical settings and DLCs (which is the worst thing to focus "uniqueness").

What i would like to see is the brainpower behind MS and Sony, in trying to add features that would handle the game controls differently.

Yea Kinect is a great idea, just make it work... And optional. Add gameplay elements that bring that element out, but only as a bonus so you reward people that have it and make people wish they have it.

Sony did great, but needs to expand too. A box that works great is a minimum that they have delivered. Now they need to make it "special", make a feature that would separate it from a "working box" to a "special play/game station".

Nintendo just needs to make a competitive hardware with more games. Their games bring the uniqueness that their "box" has, just they need more of it and try to expand their media to different, more mature demographic.

Delivering more types of experience except games based on a nutty color palette is the next step in evolution that they need to make if they want to advance from their current position.

And i believe, that we will see some of that in the next gen, because of reports like this one.

The Xbox One is definitely my favorite console this gen. Halo and Gears are the best. Xbox Live is awesome. All my friends are on Live. It is a hub of entertainment for everything in the living room. Still like my PS4; it's my go to console for solo offline games now.

Give me a free Xbox and i'll play it, if not, i'll stay with the PS3,4,PC and 360