The corporation told about this in the report for the second quarter of fiscal 2023 (October-December 2022).

On January 18, Microsoft confirmed that it would lay off 10,000 people. As it became known to the media, among others, developers from Bethesda, 343 Industries and The Coalition were reduced.

The company confirmed in a comment to IGN that from the beginning of next year it plans to raise the cost of its main titles for the Xbox Series X/S.

This was stated by the head of Xbox in the framework of the Decoder podcast. He did not name the approximate period for which Call of Duty may linger on Sony consoles, but noted that it is a bit silly to expect Microsoft to sign a contract with the word “forever”.

An amazing generation of consoles. Prices for devices and services do not fall over time, but rather grow. In August, Sony announced a price tag increase for the PlayStation 5, now Microsoft does not exclude its products either.

This statement was made by Ian Maclure, special effects artist at Bossa Studios. He explained that many studios have already managed to work with new-generation consoles and were dissatisfied with the first experience precisely because the Xbox Series S “hung like a stone around its neck.”

Such data was shared by David Gibson from MST Financial. According to him, in September Sony shipped about 7.5 thousand tons of consoles to the United States.

The corporation told about this in a report for the Brazilian antimonopoly regulator, which checked the deal with Activision Blizzard.

This figure was named by Simon Carless. Let’s clarify that we are talking about the median, not the average value.

Matt Booty has already asked Microsoft‘s research department to address this problem

The processes of game development are changing, Matt Booty is sure. In his opinion, now more and more often several teams are engaged in one game at once.

This was stated by Harrison Hoffman, chief product manager at Xbox. He said that although the corporation pays a lot of attention to streaming cloud games to smartphones, it is much more interested in the possibility of broadcasting games to televisions.

Last November, the head of Xbox shared concerns about P2E games. Yesterday, in an interview with Bloomberg, he repeated that he still considers some projects with blockchain and NFT exploitative.

During a conversation with Bloomberg, the head of Xbox also touched on the topic of games. In his opinion, in the future, exclusives will be replaced by titles with crossplay support, although not everyone likes them now.

Peter Moore, who led Microsoft‘s gaming division until 2007, shared his memories in the Front Office Sports podcast. He said that at the time of the launch of the Xbox 360, the company saw console wars as an opportunity to challenge Sony.

Microsoft reported for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2022, ended June 30. The company reported that gaming revenues decreased by 7%. Sales of “iron” sank the most — by 11% at once compared to last year.

Xbox consoles managed to beat PlayStation for weekly sales in Japan for the second time in a month and a half. According to Famitsu, last week the Japanese bought 6695 copies of the Xbox Series and 3035 copies of the PlayStation 5.

Tim Stuart said this during a conversation with investors. In his opinion, the situation has worsened due to a new series of lockdowns in China.

According to the Game Data Library, this has happened only 10 times in the entire history of the Japanese market. According to his calculations, 6,225 Xbox Series consoles and 2,693 PlayStation 5 consoles were sold in the country last week.