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In the editorial office, we have unwritten policies that say it's best to stay away from unnecessary controversy. This week we followed the evolution of a report in which the very important media outlet “L'Information”, it should be noted, made a series of negative comments based on conversations with Microsoft investors. The resultwas mostly negative, with comments like “The Activision acquisition was disappointing” or “I think the majority of the market doesn't want something like Game Pass.”
But one of the equally pithy sentences of this report was that Satya Nadella would have hesitated between closing the entire Gaming division, that is to say Xbox in its entirety, or increasing studio buyouts. After that, the acquisitions of Bethesda and Activision Blizzard took place, so the decision made was clear. But several media outlets directly asked Microsoft about these statements and, surprisingly, they responded. More precisely, for Insider games Already Wccftechas far as we know at the moment.
Over 500 million monthly players and constant growth in Cloud Gaming
The common response from both publications is complete denial that Nadella was going to shut down his entire Xbox business. In fact, they claim that at that point the CEO's view was that Microsoft was betting everything on gaming. Furthermore, they assure that currently, User engagement across Xbox platforms is at its peak, with over 500 million monthly players last year and consistent growth in monthly users in Cloud Gaming.
It's common to see how a set of opinions seems to be considered true, and we can't blame anyone for that, but if Microsoft responded to the reactions in this article, it's because it hurt them to one way or another. The most important indicator is that instead of countering this with data, he warns that they haven't provided all the context, claiming that the predictions are running wild all over the place. In the last week of January, probably the same 27, Microsoft publishes the new financial results for the last quarter of 2024and we will see how these predictions have progressed.
