Microsoft reveals today the financial statement of Xbox for the second quarter of the fiscal year, the numbers are increasing, and not just a little. It must be said that this is the first assessment of Xbox since the formalization of the takeover of the group Activision Blizzard King (ABK), which cost him nearly $69 billion.
The income of Microsoft Gaming are up 49% compared to the same quarter last year, PC sales and Xbox rose 11% and the redemption ofActivision Blizzard King increased revenues by 18%, to $62 billion. Performance even higher than expectations according to the CFO Amy Hood, while the CEO Satya Nadella states that Microsoft counted more than 200 million active users last month on PC, Xbox and mobile, a record. As a reminder, this now takes into account the users of the group ABK and therefore games like World of Warcraft, Call of Duty, Overwatch or candy Crush.
Furthermore, the figures for hours played in Xbox Cloud Gaming are up 44%, while sales of Xbox hardware rose 3% from last year, the end-of-year holiday season was rather fruitful. As a reminder, Microsoft was recently valued at over $3 trillion on the stock market, but his division Gaming Most importantly laid off more than 1,900 employees last weekwith redundant positions following the acquisition ofActivision Blizzard Kingbut not only.
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