News Microsoft Was Both Xbox and PlayStation’s Top Q3 FY2025 Publisher by Pre-Orders and Pre-Installs Xbox saw a whopping 500 million-plus monthly active users across all of its games in the fiscal year's third quarter, which ran from January to February. Posted By Shubhankar Parijat | On 01st, May. 2025 Though Xbox’s own hardware marketshare has rapidly and consistently declined in recent years, Microsoft is continuing to see impressive growth. The company has fully transitioned into being a multiplatorm publisher, having released several major first-party Xbox titles for PlayStation and Nintendo Switch over the last year (the former in particular)- and is now reaping the benefits. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella revealed (via Tom Warren on Twitter) in the company’s recent quarterly fiscal briefing that for Q3 of fiscal year 2024-25, which ran from January to the end of March, Xbox was the “top publisher” by pre-orders and pre-installs not only on the Xbox Store, but also the PlayStation Store. Having lined up the likes of Age of Mythology: Retold, Forza Horizon 5, and Indiana Jones and the Great Circle for the PS5 in the early months of 2025, that doesn’t come as a huge surprise. Meanwhile, PC Game Pass also saw a 45 percent year-on-year bump in its revenue, while cloud gaming surpassed a collective 150 million hours played by its entire userbase, setting a record and marking the first time that it has seen those numbers. Significantly, across all first-party Microsoft titles on all platforms (so also including PlayStation, Switch, and mobile in addition to Xbox and PC), the company saw over 500 million monthly active users during the quarter. Tagged With: Atomfall Publisher:Rebellion Developments Developer:Rebellion Developments Platforms:PS5, Xbox Series X, PS4, Xbox One, PCView More Monster Hunter Wilds Publisher:Capcom Developer:Capcom Platforms:PS5, Xbox Series X, PCView More South of Midnight Publisher:Microsoft Developer:Compulsion Games Platforms:Xbox Series X, PCView More Amazing Articles You Might Want To Check Out! Microsoft Was Both Xbox and PlayStation’s Top Q3 FY2025 Publisher by Pre-Orders and Pre-Installs Xbox saw a whopping 500 million-plus monthly active users across all of its games in the fiscal year's third q... Shovel Knight Dig Launches for PS5, Xbox Series X/S, and Xbox One on May 15 The Wicked Wish expansion, which will add new content for free, will also launch for new and existing platform... Codemasters is “Pausing Development Plans on Future Rally Titles” Codemasters says it has "reached the end of the road working on WRC," and that it has paused all future plans ... Borderlands 4 Adds 3 New Weapon Manufacturers, Licensed Parts, and Ordnance Slot Guns can now drop with components from multiple weapon manufacturers, leading to much more loot diversity than... Borderlands 4 Gameplay Showcases New Traversal Methods, Story Mission, and More New planet Kairos offers four large zones to seamlessly explore with side activities like Silos, dungeons, and... Assassin’s Creed Shadows Year 1 Roadmap Reveals New Quests, Difficulty Options, and New Game Plus May sees the addition of new parkour moves for Naoe, Photo Mode features, quality-of-life improvements, and mo... View More