Analysts optimistic about Microsoft's game sales performance in the future console war

2025-02-07 02:17:55|Myriagame |source：minecraft skins

While both PS4 and PS5 are extremely successful consoles for Sony, it is widely believed that Microsoft has been lagging behind in the "console war" since the release of Xbox One.However, industry analysts have different opinions.

Matt Piscatera, an analyst at Circana, a subsidiary of Nelson, talked about the current situation of Xbox, especially in terms of sales, and compared it with PlayStation.

Interestingly, Piscatera pointed out that Microsoft's gaming department has actually been performing quite well, even if it only looks at the sales list of Sony consoles, because many Xbox games can be played on PS5.

"If you look at the current sales situation and look at the PlayStation sales list, you will see a lot of Microsoft games on it." Piscatera said, "and the more they can expand their products and their IP.The attraction there is from other platform holders, so why not do that?”

Piscatera said Xbox should not only focus on pure console sales, but focus on bringing more of its own games to other platforms.

“Looking forward and some of the initiatives they talked about, expanding the Xbox brand’s reach far beyond the Xbox console is a key move, and they are implementing that.” Piscatera said of Xboxsaid at the current strategy.

"You look at their financial results and you will feel that, well, it looks pretty good, although they also admit that their gaming console sales are lagging behind. From this perspective, the future is actually quite bright, but it is indeed a few years since then.The year has been quite bumpy."

According to Piscatera, Xbox also values ​​its Xbox Game Pass subscription service, which means the company is looking at Xbox more as an ecosystem than just console hardware.

“I think it works well in the product portfolio that is available to consumers,” he said. “Maybe the kind of desperate strategy that was before, it seems like a good decision to adjust now.”

Xbox launched a bigger trend to promote games to more platforms last year, such as launching games such as Sea of ​​Thieves and Perfect Sound Wave to PS5.The company seems to be interested in releasing more important games to the PlayStation platform, and will also be launched on Xbox Series X/S and PC platforms. "Raptors of the Lost Ark: Ancient Circle" is scheduled to be launched on PS5 this spring.

Strangely, the last time we saw a game console manufacturer put aside its own hardware platform and instead acted as a third-party developer and publisher, it was Sega after the release of the ill-fated Dreamcast game console.But since then, Sega has made a name for itself as a publisher in many game types on all platforms.In 2024 alone, it released popular games such as "Sonic × Shatter Generation Reboot", "Metaphorical Fantasy", "Dragon 8", and "Persona 3: Remake".

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