Sony's PS5 console is outselling Xbox Series X/S, but Microsoft has more favorable financials to tinker with strategy as development costs for console games grow
While overall gaming was up 11% from the equivalent 2020 quarter, Microsoft’ssay that console-driven growth was offset by Xbox content and services, the unit housing Game Pass.
Furthermore, while touting the success of Game Pass, those earnings also blamed the content and services unit’s 4% decrease in revenue on diminished third-party sales — as if the value offered to players by Game Pass, which enables them to play a tremendous amount of games for a set monthly price, isn’t a direct contributor to the lower growth in game sales.
Not to mention licensing third-party titles for Game Pass means paying publishers upfront. Still, Microsoft shelled out $7.5 billion for ZeniMax Media to nab publisher Bethesda, which some see as aThat’s the point, though — Microsoft isn’t just investing in players getting their money’s worth. If $7.5 billion was too much, then the difference from the value added by the boost in titles to both Game Pass and future console exclusives is what the acquisition means to studios making single-player, AAA-quality games: funding.confirming
the milestone in PS5 sales, Sony also boasted sales of 6.5 million copies for PS5 launch exclusive “Spider-Man: Miles Morales” and 1.1 million for June’s “Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart,” following similar disclosures in 2020 of positive sales for hits like “The Last of Us Part II” and “Ghost of Tsushima.”
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