Xbox's Multiplatform Releases Made Microsoft The Top Game Publisher In The World Last Month
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Data firm Ampere has released some interesting stats about the month of December in gaming - stats that name Microsoft as the top publisher in the world for the final month of 2024. According to the analyst group, $465 million was spent on Xbox games last month, making Microsoft the biggest publisher across Xbox, PlayStation and PC.

As expected, Call of Duty drove that customer spending in a big way. The launch of Black Ops 6 has been huge for Microsoft, with the COD HQ launcher bringing in 38 million users in November last year, seemingly followed up by a huge December for the franchise as well.

Interestingly, 64% of the above Microsoft revenue figure was spent on PlayStation platforms, with Black Ops 6 being the main driver of that percentage. We learned late last year that the Xbox to PlayStation split for Black Ops 6 massively favoured the Sony platform, so that number is perhaps no surprise here.

Ampere also notes that mega-publisher EA brought in roughly $366 million during the same time period last month, marking a significant drop off from the Microsoft number. Just like Call of Duty for the Xbox owner, EA Sports FC 25 was the main factor in EA getting such results.

With all of this in mind, it starts to make more and more sense why Xbox would launch its biggest games on other platforms, especially from its expensive Bethesda and ActiBlizz acquisitions. COD clearly makes a lot of money on PlayStation, and with Nintendo platforms bound to follow when Switch 2 launches, we're curious to see where these numbers head in the coming years.

Thoughts on these figures, PXers? Talk to us about 'em down below.

[source videogameschronicle.com]