Xbox Game Pass Revenue Was 'Nearly $5 Billion for the First Time' Over the Last Year

Xbox Game Pass gross reached a caller grounds for Xbox implicit the past year, achieving "nearly $5 billion" successful gross for the archetypal time.

This comes from the company's Q4 and full-year net results, covering the past 12 months ending June 30, 2025. While CEO Satya Nadella announced the milestone connected the call, helium did not supply circumstantial gross numbers for Game Pass.

Nadella besides did not stock subscriber numbers. That said, Game Pass subscribers are confirmed to person reached 34 cardinal backmost successful February 2024, and a Microsoft employee's illustration suggested conscionable 2 months agone that this fig had reached 35 million, though this is unverified.

Some of that maturation apt comes from terms hikes connected the work that kicked disconnected successful July of past year. But it hasn't wounded that Xbox dropped a fig of caller first-party games connected Game Pass particularly successful the past 4th of the fiscal year, including The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion: Remastered, Doom: The Dark Ages, and Indiana Jones and the Great Circle.

Overall, gaming gross for Xbox was up 10% year-over-year and Xbox contented and services gross was up 13%, driven by maturation successful first-party contented and yes, Xbox Game Pass. Hardware gross was down year-over-year by 22%.

Despite these increases, Xbox precocious laid disconnected hundreds of workers crossed assorted parts of its gaming concern and canceled aggregate projects, including Everwild and Perfect Dark.

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