Xbox Series X/S sales estimated to have passed 12 million, as company reports record annual revenue
(Pocket-lint) — Industry analysts suggest that Xbox Series X / Series S console sales have now surpassed 12 million, with the Microsoft company reporting record annual revenue figures for 2021.
Xbox's earnings soared to $16.28 billion during the previous calendar year, which represents an increase of 17.07%.
As evidenced by video game analytics firm Niko Partners, revenue from hardware rose by just over 63%, generating a total of $3.7 billion. This points to a very strong performance for the Xbox consoles since release, though it's not quite enough to surmount PlayStation 5 sales, with Sony indicating it shipped 13.4 million units back in September 2021.
As Xbox's recent $68.7 billion deal to buy Activision Blizzard showed, though, it's not all about hardware.
Content and services for the Microsoft gaming division was its biggest earner in 2021, up 8.8% year-on-year and reaching $12.6 billion. Naturally, the continued development of Game Pass and first-party game sales would have been the key drivers to this figure.
Microsoft's Gaming division (Xbox) reported revenue of $16.28 billion for the 2021 calendar year: — Best calendar year on record, beating previous high of 2020 — Total gaming revenue up 17.7% YoY — Content & Services revenue up 8.8% YoY — Hardware revenue up 63.3% YoY pic.twitter.com/84MkOsnMkG
So, what can we expect from the company in 2022?
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Aside from wrapping up the mammoth deal to purchase Activision Blizzard — which, apparently, won't lead to Call of Duty becoming an Xbox exclusive, as the next three games look set to appear on PlayStation — it seems that Xbox is focusing on producing as many consoles as possible in order to
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