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Wrong. You confuse the Xbox console with Microsoft's overall position as game publisher which includes all of Activision-Blizzard-King, Bethesda, Minecraft, Halo, Forza,... across multiple platforms.
You’re confusing the word “dominant”. They’ve never been even remotely close to being dominant in gaming.
Look up the revenue numbers. Nobody else comes close. Minecraft alone with its different editions is massive.
Sony easily beat them lol. Did you even look up the numbers?
PlayStation consoles beat Xbox consoles but that's not the whole gaming market. Microsoft and their subsidiaries publish games for PlayStation, Nintendo, iPhones, Windows,... This is really not hard to understand.
Yep, revenue numbers from when ABK was still independent, user numbers of the various Minecraft editions, etc. All public information easily to find for any person with basic media competency.
Articles like https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/microsoft-was-the-no-1-games-publisher-in-the-world-last-month/ are really easy to find.
Now go look at both companies total gaming revenue for the whole year, not just the month that the biggest game of the year releases.
PlayStations revenue is about 50% more than Xbox’s.
Minecraft, Bethesda, and Activision Blizard are not part of Xbox. They are separate publishing arms within Microsoft. How is that so hard to understand? How can one not grasp such a simple thing?
The irony of this is just incredible.
Their revenues are all included in Xbox’s revenue lol. Have you ever even read one of Microsoft’s earnings reports? Doesn’t look like it. If there was a “confidently incorrect” community on here your comments would be pinned to the top lol
https://www.tweaktown.com/news/96558/big-3-revenues-compared-playstation-made-30-billion-in-2023-xbox-18/index.html
Show me ONE source showing that Xbox makes more revenue than PlayStation. Just one.
Activision-Blizzard is not part of Xbox. Both are separate branches under Microsoft Gaming.
I also thought it was clear that by "dominant position in game publishing" I didn't mean the revenue taken solely from the 30% platform tax and not from hardware sales but from the combined sales of their games. It was my mistake to not clarify this. Sony releases only a handful of games per year. I also referenced user numbers of Minecraft, a cheap game with a massive user base but it would be madness to include the revenue of the Minecraft movie into a comment about the standing in game publishing.
I thought I made myself clear that my comment was about using all those games properties and Windows monopoly to further hurt the market. Making Minecraft exclusive to Windows and Xbox would be such a move.