Microsoft reveals how much Tencent, Apple, and Google make from mobile games

Microsoft reveals mobile earnings for Tencent, Apple, and Google and exposes one of the biggest reasons why it wants to buy Activision Blizzard King.

[Jin_Sakai]

Tencent making more than Apple and Google combine. Crazy.

[blackblades]

And you wonder why Sony and MS wanna get a foot into mobile and I'm down with that. As long as it'll help the AAA studios budget.

[Eonjay]

Right. It only makes sense that both word want to make money off of mobile. That shouldn't be in question at all.

[VenomUK]

Incredible numbers.

There's an assumption in some areas that cloud gaming is the future, but as mobile devices continue to become more graphically capable of running games it negates the need to stream games.

And all this squabbling between the gaming community on which console has the best games; Nintendo or PlayStation or Microsoft, and all it takes is the advanced iPhones or Androids to become standard in worldwide markets and publishers like Capcom will be able to sell its latest triple-A Resident Evil game to anyone who has a phone.

[neutralgamer1992]

Tencent is bigger then people think and they have their hands in so many cookie jars. And they are the trillion dollar company that can buy pretty much any publishers

They own % of epic Fortnite and PUBG so when both companies sued each other they stepped in and reminded either way money is coming to same jar

[CrimsonWing69]

This is why the industry wants to make mobile games model transition to console games.

It sucks because they keep trying shit like GaaS and microstransaction sh*t trying to make everything the exact same model, just like mobile games.

Hopefully, they'll all keep failing and these a-hole publishers will realize the console/PC arena is different than the mobile and knock this sh*t off.

Though, we've got some rough times ahead with Square Enix's new president saying he wants to double down on block chain games and NFTs... again, trying their damndest to transform the console/PC games into mobile like money makers.

[1Victor]

I guess taking games away from the competition is just icing on the cake 🤦🏿
@ venom I don’t see a phone catching up to a console any time soon maybe in 30+ years with the current trend of yearly minor improvements

[XiNatsuDragnel]

Tencent making huge profits.

[darksky]

A large portion of that is from League of Legends which generates over $1.7B revenue per year.

[SullysCigar]

Microsoft out there on an enemy collectathon right now, dragging anyone they can into the fray. Classy.

[343_Guilty_Spark]

The info is available during earnings call. Not exactly secret information.

[CrimsonWing69]

Shhhh! you ruin the whole fanboy argument when you make sense.

[Bathyj]

If it is public knowledge why do they have to bring it up? Microsoft need to seriously stop dumping their purse on the floor every day.

[S2Killinit]

MS’s ultimate vision of gaming.

[Godmars290]

MS moving into an established market claiming they'll...

No wait. They're not claiming easy domination as soon as they move in (this time) they're just saying they want a piece of the market. Are still using they're overall position in the tech industry to imply such while showing no understanding of the market they're shouldering into.

[ActualEngineer]

I bet their attack plan would be a f2p GAAS port-remake of the next COD game to mobile and switch - including campaign and MP. Also Crash Bandicoot and Spyro mobile games, along a new candy crash. Also I bet they are preparing a new mobile OS, with chatgpt 4 integrations and the ability to natively play Xbox - PC games through a low level x86 to arm recompiler (like the snapdragon 845 can do now, by booting into windows 11). You people over here tend to forget that Microsoft is the second biggest company in existence and hires some of the most talented people to ever exist...

[outsider1624]

@actualengineer
"You people over here tend to forget that Microsoft is the second biggest company in existence and hires some of the most talented people to ever exist..."

And yet they can't figure out how to make first party games to rival Sony's. 70 billon dollars...think about it. Not 700 million, not 7Billion but 70 freaking Billion dollars..just buy up straight.
They could have had like what 70 AAAA exclusives with that kind of money and their most talented people to exist.

[Extermin8or3_]

@outsider more like 700 AAA exclusives unless the budgets of each of the 70 had a budget of a billion dollars lol

[darkrider]

Go Microsoft to mobile at full force. Go with everything to mobile gaming! Just go

[S2Killinit]

Unfortunately they are taking a large part of the previously multiplatform gaming with them wherever the hell it is that they are going

[BandarHub]

Microsoft doesnt want to go into Mobile gaming they want a small slice of the 3 Billion mobile gamers to game on gamepass.
If they get them to stream the console version Call of duty on gamepass on there then that's a big win for them.
If they get at least 10% of the 3 Billion, that would be enough... 300 Million*£10= £3 Billion a month and £36 Billion a year.

This is why they were fighting apple a couple of month ago.

[MIDGETonSTILTS17]

Mobile gaming is the new scratch lottery tickets.

When have you ever seen a millennial play a scratch off, vs how often do you see this group pay for mtx’s.

[babadivad]

Can't say I've ever paid for mobile mtx. I have paid for dlc though.

[anast]

People are going to cry after they have invested over 30 years into Xbox to watch them prioritize mobile games.

[Lore]

Then break off Activision portion if that’s truly the case.

[ActualEngineer]

Word has it, that Microsoft is trying to expand gamepass to 200 million users, and that can only become a reality through the mobile user base (essentially kids and teens)

[repsahj]

I hope Microsoft doesn't win in console gaming in my lifetime.

[ooquis]

When I tell my Xbox buddies their precious MS is essentially investing 70B in the cancer of gaming, which is the micro transactions-easy money, they get angry. Why?

[Roarke]

These numbers are only from games, but google and apple own ads service for user acquisition and pushing developers to use them… so final numbers are a lot of higher

[Tres21]

I guess I have a question let's say Ms does away with console and just becomes a streaming service for games on all platforms all games become multiplatform no exceptions you just have to get game pass all the studios working on they own thing like Netflix would it still be an issue or is it the idea they'll ruin gaming that way as well? Cause I can't act Luke they haven't always made the best decisions but that's any company and obviously they make a few decent ones cause they're in a position to be able to do what they do cause of all around business.