Microsoft CEO Nadella said on the company’s third-quarter earnings call that the strong sales of Xbox Series X/S have made Xbox occupy a place in the world for two consecutive quarters.
Nadella said Microsoft was the market leader in consoles in the US, Canada, the UK and western Europe during the quarter.
NPD recently released the March 2022 North American market game hardware and software sales data, Xbox Series X/ S sales ranked first in the first quarter, in addition, In March, Xbox Series X / S sales and sales broke the record for March since the history of Xbox consoles in March.
In addition, the Xbox Series X/S surpassed the PS5 in Europe for the first time in February and was the best-selling console in the UK in March.
It House learned that on Microsoft’s earnings call, the company’s chief financial officer Amy Hood looked ahead to the fourth quarter and said: “In the gaming space, due to the year-on-year decline in game time and the limited supply of game consoles, we expect revenue to decline in the mid-to-high single digits, but game time is still expected to be higher than before the epidemic.” ”
According to VGChartz’s console sales statistics, as of March this year, the total global sales of the Xbox Series X|S consoles (seventeenth month) have reached 13,867,499 units. In response, the previous console, Xbox One, sold a total of 11,480,703 units in the 17th month of release.