Makes sense since I don’t think they are really sending out a lot of hardware. I’ve been reading that the consoles are not in stock in a lot of places/countries.
No, they are not…
Microsoft has dropped it’s earnings report and for Xbox, the news looks good. (Brad Sams)
No they are not sending out consoles or no they are not out of stock in places?
The big missed opportunity was not having Minecraft Special Edition Xbox and Minecraft controller.
I mentioned this in a question to the podcast and That could have been one of many things:
- trailer for Minecraft special edition Xbox (having a skin that makes the X and S look like they’re made from Minecraft blocks would have made perfect sense) and controller.
- trailer for Game Pass educating tens of millions of parents on an affordable way to play video games in a time where money is tight
- in-movie product placement. A ton of kids grew up with Minecraft on the 360. A 360 with the controller could have been in the retro game store.
- the fake Minecraft movie video game featured in the final scenes of the movie could have been released on the Xbox and Game Pass as a free game. Kids who want everything Minecraft would have begged their parents for and Xbox to play it.
When it comes to a hardware sales I feel like Microsoft’s not even trying. There may be reasons that make perfect sense that are just unknown to us.
No, they are not sending out consoles.
Newcomer here to the site. Gonna add a bit of my take on this.
Overall i think its good that most of the revenue is up and adam. But i can’t feel much content at looking and seeing just how much the hardware side is declining over the last two to three years.
Mostly cause i enjoy the hardware that i have and wished xbox gave it more of a chance, but thats my personal opinion and bias.
Although i do have to wonder if the supposed pc handheld would take part in that area once we actually get official news on the subject from the horses mouth in some way. If so, i do wonder how its going to be marketed, would Asus be the only one making the marketing stratregies or would Xbox actually put effort in this as they do with gamepass.
Those are my two cents on the matter. I apologies if any of this came across as rude.
They need to find a way to sell more consoles…
You act like they’re trying to, I think it’s pretty clear that they’re not.
On that we definitely agree, I do not think they’re trying at all, and it’s not a recent thing, I remember when they raised the price of the very popular Series S in Brazil, basically giving that market who loved that little cheap console the middle finger, I don’t know what they think they will achieve from this in the end, no Xbox hardware means Game Pass will only exist on PC… I guess we’ll see, now this new price raise is probably due to the tariffs more than anything else but we’ll see.