Microsoft’s newest weblog put up particulars a powerful record of stats, together with that gamers have logged 1.66 billion hours of time on Xbox Sport Studios titles in 2020.
Xbox Sport Studios contains notable builders like 343 Industries (Halo), Compulsion Video games (We Completely satisfied Few), Mojang Studios (Minecraft), PlayGround Video games (Forza Horizon), Uncommon (Sea of Thieves), Undead Labs (State of Decay) and a number of other different builders.
Past that, the corporate boasts that its publishing arm launched 15 video games and that 10 of them have been new franchises. One in every of these is the spectacular Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020, which the corporate is especially pleased with because it touts a Metacritic rating of 92.
The flight sim neighborhood has additionally taken 26 million flights with over a billion miles flown, which is an unbelievable quantity contemplating the sport solely launched this summer season.
One other attention-grabbing statistic the corporate launched is that out of the 6.9 million Minecraft Dungeons gamers, 4.Four million of them have been native sofa co-op video games, hopefully, suggesting to the corporate that native co-op remains to be essential to video video games.
These stats are, in fact, designed to make it appear to be Microsoft has a profitable 12 months regardless of the Xbox One being firmly planted in third place past Sony’s PlayStation Four and Nintendo’s Change.
That mentioned, hopefully, Microsoft can apply a few of this momentum to its next-generation console technique with the Xbox Series X. Microsoft’s Xbox Sequence S and X are set to launch on November 10th.
Supply: Microsoft
