Four financial quarters have been officially reported. Now let’s wait for their final report of the complete fiscal year.
My personal conclusion:
The Xbox brand would have been nothing financially without the numbers from their acquisitions.
Which is sad, but also true.
I won’t go into the fact that every of the four quarter reports had a loss in operating income due to expenses. Which are likely going to mount up to ~$2bn operating income loss in their FY report.
So in total, Microsoft spent an estimated $80bn (excluding (!) GP day-one deals with third parties and ID@Xbox investments) over the past 5 years.
Mounting up to a Xbox software revenue increase of ~45% in average in the first year of combined numbers. Minus before mentioned operating income losses of ~$2bn due to acquisition expenses.
At this point in time, I really wonder who saved who.
To me it looks like ABK & Zenimax saved Xbox (which is actually the reason for the acquisitions).
And Playstation is also stepping in to save them with superior CoD numbers for decades and Xbox “first-parties” getting released on PS5.
Damn. What a disaster.
I’ll eat popcorn and chewgum when their next FY quarter reports will arrive.
Can’t wait to see their tiny revenue increases or even losses compared to this first year of combined numbers.
PS:
I also place a bet that even Indiana Jones won’t save them this year.
First and foremost because it’s a day-one GP release without barely any box office revenue.
And because it’s only going to have a 60/70, maybe low 80′ MC and OC score.
