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Microsoft’s Xbox Gets Another Revenue Boost From Activision

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Microsoft has released its Q1 2025 financial results today and once again the company has received a significant boost from its acquisition of Activision Blizzard. This includes increases to its gaming revenue and ‘Xbox content and services’ revenue.

The tech giant reported gaming revenue growing by 43% “including 43 points of net impact from the Activision acquisition”. As for Xbox’s content and services revenue, it’s grown 61% with “53 points of net impact from the Activision acquisition.

As for Xbox hardware sales, the company reported a revenue decline of 29%. Overall, Microsoft revenue was at $65.6 billion in the latest earnings release, with an increase of 16% year-over-year.

The latest update about Microsoft’s gaming division follows CEO Satya Nadella recently noting in a letter to shareholders how the company now owns “20 franchises that have generated over $1 billion in lifetime revenue” including series like Halo, Diablo, Warcraft, The Elder Scrolls and Candy Crush.

Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 was also released on Xbox as well as Microsoft’s subscription service Game Pass last week.



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