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Is This The End of Xbox As We Know It? | FlipScreen Games Podcast 172
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- Mar 5, 2025
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Summary
Pete & Steve DIVE DEEP on how Xbox's current hardware sales are holding back the brand as a whole. Is it time for Xbox to abandon hardware so they can focus their attention on growing Game Pass and publishing games from their MASSIVE studio portfolio? Will market situations beyond their control limit Game Pass growth over the next few years?Sources:https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/investor/earnings/fy-2024-q4/press-release-webcasthttps://www.microsoft.com/en-us/investor/events/fy-2025/earnings-fy-2025-q2https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/investor/earnings/fy-2024-q4/more-personal-computing-performancehttps://www.gamesindustry.biz/ps5-experiences-record-sales-during-holiday-period-playstation-revenues-reach-11bnhttps://www.sony.com/en/SonyInfo/IR/library/presen/er/archive.htmlhttps://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/en/finance/hard_soft/number.htmlhttps://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/en/index.htmlhttps://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/en/library/earnings/index.htmlhttps://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/pdf/2024/241105_5e.pdfhttps://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/pdf/2024/241106e.pdfhttps://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/pdf/2024/240507_4e.pdfhttps://kotaku.com/xbox-series-x-s-physical-game-low-sales-digital-1851218453https://gamerant.com/xbox-section-down-sized-target/https://www.statista.com/statistics/1202202/global-playstation-game-unit-sales-quarter/https://www.pushsquare.com/news/2025/01/xbox-was-decembers-biggest-publisher-and-64percent-of-its-sales-were-on-ps5-ps4https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/new-report-says-pc-games-are-outselling-console-games-calling-pc-gaming-a-bright-spot-in-a-troubled-industry/https://www.ign.com/articles/xbox-game-pass-now-has-34-million-fully-paid-subscribers-growth-coming-from-pc-and-cloudhttps://gamerant.com/ps-plus-extra-premium-games-player-count-decline-july-2024/https://www.g…