{"id":31420,"date":"2025-10-30T02:27:55","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T02:27:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/xbox-revenue-falls-30-year-over-year\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T02:27:55","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T02:27:55","slug":"xbox-revenue-falls-30-year-over-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/xbox-revenue-falls-30-year-over-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Xbox revenue falls 30% year-over-year"},"content":{"rendered":"[ad_1]\n<\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">The year has not been kind to Xbox, with Microsoft&#8217;s latest earnings report revealing a 30 percent year-over-year decline in revenue from Xbox hardware for the quarter ending September 30. It&#8217;s worth noting that this decline does not take into account the <a data-i13n=\"cpos:1;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/gaming\/xbox\/microsoft-is-making-xbox-consoles-even-more-expensive-in-the-us-192443699.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:$20-to-$70 price hike;cpos:1;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">$20-to-$70 price hike<\/a> implemented on October 3, as this change occurred after the reported quarter. Similarly, the price increase for the Game Pass Ultimate subscription <a data-i13n=\"cpos:2;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/microsoft-jacks-the-price-of-game-pass-ultimate-up-to-30-a-month-142441307.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:from $20 to $30;cpos:2;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">from $20 to $30<\/a> also took effect in October.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">In contrast, revenue from Xbox content and services has remained relatively stable compared to the same period last year. According to Microsoft, growth in Xbox subscriptions and third-party content was partially offset by a decline in first-party gaming content.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">The Xbox division was significantly impacted when Microsoft began reducing its global workforce earlier this year, resulting in the cancellation of games in development for the console. Notably, Microsoft <a data-i13n=\"cpos:3;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/gaming\/xbox\/microsoft-gaming-division-suffers-further-layoffs-142430386.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:most affected teams;cpos:3;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">scrapped<\/a> the modern reimagining of <em>Perfect Dark<\/em>, a first-person shooter from 2000, and closed the Xbox studio responsible for its development. Additionally, the company <a data-i13n=\"cpos:4;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/gaming\/xbox\/microsoft-is-closing-the-studio-developing-the-perfect-dark-reboot-and-cancelling-the-game-182257902.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:cancelled;cpos:4;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">cancelled<\/a> <em>Everwild<\/em>, a long-in-development project by Xbox studio Rare, amidst its mass layoffs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">On a broader scale, Microsoft reported an overall revenue of $77.7 billion, which represents a 17 percent increase compared to the same period last year, and its operating income saw a 22 percent rise. In a post on X, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella highlighted key points from the company&#8217;s earnings call, focusing primarily on its AI initiatives. He announced plans to increase AI capacity by 80 percent this year and double the company&#8217;s data center footprint over the next two years.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n[ad_2]\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/gaming\/xbox\/xbox-console-revenue-fell-30-percent-year-over-year-this-summer-012245146.html?src=rss\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Source Link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] The year has not been kind to Xbox, with Microsoft&#8217;s latest earnings report revealing a 30 percent year-over-year decline in revenue from Xbox hardware for the quarter ending September&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31421,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[781,133,7589,298,7590],"class_list":{"0":"post-31420","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-earnings-report","9":"tag-microsoft","10":"tag-revenue-decline","11":"tag-xbox","12":"tag-xbox-hardware"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2025\/10\/5f3c8510-1f18-11eb-b7af-091dd94d7030.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31420\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}