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Call of Duty and Diablo boost #Microsoft's gaming revenues, but #Xbox sales continue to fall https://www.gamesindustry.biz/call-of-duty-and-diablo-boost-microsofts-gaming-revenues-but-xbox-sales-continue-to-fall @GIbiz @James_Batchelor

Call of Duty and Diablo boost Microsoft's gaming revenues, but Xbox sales continue to fall

Microsoft has released its latest financial results, showing significant growth in gaming revenues — thanks in no small…
James Batchelor (GamesIndustry.biz)
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Patrick
Patrick
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@James_Batchelor they needed them but also a few years back a bunch exclusives people would buy into the system for
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Aida Akl
Aida Akl
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It was a shot in the arm. But is it sustainable?
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Patrick
Patrick
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Depends. They have a lot of money from cloud and windows…So they aren’t really at risk of going under to just keep sending systems out there. (Ie they aren’t really at risk of going Sega: go multi platform or die). That said, I’m afraid by putting their titles on other platforms they will be relegated more to a publisher….that happens to own a bunch of big publisher/studios
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Aida Akl
Aida Akl
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They're not going under, but putting their titles on other platforms kinda negates any reason for a separate Xbox console to exist, or so it seems. It might not be the worst thing to be relegated to a publisher category, but then, what's the point of creating more Xbox titles?
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Patrick
Patrick
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More like they should rebrand to everything is Xbox Gaming Studios (or something) as a publisher and they have a subscription service like Ea, Ubisoft, etc) Game Pass. The way they are going hardware wise, the only thing people might go hmm is handheld. But that already has competition and likely be about like windows phone or Zune.
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