MINECRAFT ACHIEVES MICROSOFT upsell.

MINECRAFT ACHIEVES MICROSOFT upsell.

MICROSOFT has sold 1.4 million consoles during the last quarter of this year.

On Tuesday, the company reported its results for the quarter year ending July 30 earnings and so you get to see, the results are quite robust.

One among Xbox and Xbox 360, Microsoft reported 1.4 million units sold during the corresponding period, compared with 1.1 million units sold last year during the same period. Even the Redmond giant has sold 12.1 million consoles during the fiscal year, compared with 11.7 million sold last year.

But not only the sale of consoles has left dividends year after year to Microsoft, also fed earnings approaching $ 205 million generated by the Xbox Live service through which users increasingly using the services offered this system.

In addition, the Minecraft franchise is still going strong pace. Recall that Microsoft acquired rights to the sandbox of Mojang for $ 2.5 billion last year. This title helped the company to increase profits $ 63 billion won compared with last year.

Importantly, all numbers presented are relevant to the Xbox division within the entire company is Microsoft. As the company reported $ 22.2 billion overall profit, below the $ 23.4 billion it reported last year during the same period, losing $ 2.1 billion in operation compared to $ 6.5 billonees won last year.

As has been well known throughout the career of Microsoft in the world of pixel, Xbox generally has profits for the company. However, not only they are dedicated to this and compared with other (software, smartphones, computer equipment, systems), which represents the industry pixelera is a minimal gain.