Tech Advisor - UK (2020-05)

MAY 2020 • TECH ADVISOR 11

AMD, the supplier responsible for the chips powering

the Xbox One as well as the upcoming Microsoft Xbox

Series X, said that SoC chip sales would be negligible

for the near future. Xbox content and services fell

11 percent, Microsoft said, in part because of strong

sales of games a year ago. As sales of the Xbox Series

X begin to come in, however, revenue contributions

will begin to increase during the second half of the

year, Hood added. Nevertheless, Microsoft said it

reached a new record level in Xbox Live users, and

that GamePass subscriptions had doubled.

Microsoft’s Project xCloud, allowing consumers

to play games on a cellular phone directly from the

Azure cloud, has attracted “hundreds of thousands”

of users, according to Nadella.

Project xCloud has
attracted ‘hundreds
of thousands’ of users