{"id":115733,"date":"2020-07-22T21:02:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-22T21:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/366879"},"modified":"2020-07-22T21:02:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T21:02:00","slug":"xbox-closes-q4-with-gains-in-hardware-revenue-record-engagement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/07\/22\/xbox-closes-q4-with-gains-in-hardware-revenue-record-engagement\/","title":{"rendered":"Xbox closes Q4 with gains in hardware revenue, record engagement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft saw an uptick in console sales during the last quarter of its 2020 financial year, reporting a 49 percent increase in hardware revenue due to an increase in consoles sold.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a notable increase given that Microsoft&#8217;s last few quarterly reports have found hardware sales to be slowing. That jump also comes alongside other year-over-year increases for the Xbox brand during the quarter ending June 30, 2020.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Along with those year-over-year hardware gains, Microsoft says that Xbox content and services revenue also increased by $1.2 billion or 65 percent compared to the same quarter last year. As a whole, Microsoft says video game revenue increased $1.3 billion or 64 percent. Like many other companies right now, Microsoft credits that increase in spending (and record engagement) to on-going stay-at-home guidelines, as well as strength from third-party games.<br \/> &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft saw an uptick in console sales during the last quarter of its 2020 financial year, reporting a 49 percent increase in hardware revenue due to an increase in consoles sold. It&#8217;s a notable increase given that Microsoft&#8217;s last few quarterly reports have found hardware sales to be slowing. That jump also comes alongside other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":115734,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115733\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}