• nickiwest@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    That’s one eighth of the earth’s population, all playing Xbox every day.

    That’s more than five times as many daily players as total Xbox consoles sold in the past 25 years.

    I agree that it is not going to happen. I love playing video games, but I don’t play them every day. Even when I do play, it’s not always on the same console/computer/device.

    The only way that MS can get even remotely close to one billion daily users is with mobile gaming. Most of what I can find with a quick search indicates that nearly 75% of the world’s population has a smartphone. That kind of hardware distribution is hard to beat. But they would need a thousand apps that each have a million daily players to meet that goal, which is simply unrealistic, even for a company of MS’s size.