Xbox struggles continue as console sales fall 32% and first-party games underperform

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    1. This is what happens when greedy executives kill a perfectly profitable business so they can pump more cash into AI data centers that aren’t actually useful. It’s the idiot strategy of only focusing on big tech buzzwords that have a chance of exponential growth and ignoring everything else, like when kids playing football forget their position and all run straight towards the ball. Our entire global economy is reliant on people with this moth-brain stupidity.

    2. Independent-Igbo444 on

      No matter how much we complain, nothing is changing. Their answer to not selling is too keep prices high for bigger margins on the few things they do sell, priority is third party where their biggest profits are in. It’s a non-topic at this point.

    3. > In its second-quarter results for financial year 2026, which ended December 31, 2025, Microsoft wrote that Gaming revenue decreased by $623 million to $5.99 billion, or 9%. The drop was driven by the 32% decline in Xbox hardware, as well as a small dip in Xbox content and services.

      > Microsoft specified that there was a 5% decline in content and services – the section that includes Game Pass subscriptions.