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Tom Warren

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459 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

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Decoder with Nilay Patel
Inside Xbox's executive shakeup

And a lot of that growth was through Series S and X. That was the desire, right?

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Inside Xbox's executive shakeup

But some of it was also cloud and mobile, right?

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Inside Xbox's executive shakeup

Like a chunk of it.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Inside Xbox's executive shakeup

Um, and obviously that's, that's not going to happen unless something crazy happens in the next four years, right?

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Inside Xbox's executive shakeup

Like that, that growth is not, it's just not there for them at the moment.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Inside Xbox's executive shakeup

I think the last time they reported it was 34 million.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Inside Xbox's executive shakeup

So the messaging changed in 2022, basically from like Game Pass is our thing to like, well, it's going to be like 20% of Xbox content and services revenue.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Inside Xbox's executive shakeup

We don't see it being much bigger than that.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Inside Xbox's executive shakeup

It's still early days, and they've consumed it in a way that it's hard to tell, right?

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Inside Xbox's executive shakeup

This is the classic thing with Microsoft's financials.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Inside Xbox's executive shakeup

Every quarter, they hide something else that's not quite working.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Inside Xbox's executive shakeup

Like they've done Surface devices.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Inside Xbox's executive shakeup

They used to do Surface revenue.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Inside Xbox's executive shakeup

Now it's Windows and OEM and devices, so...

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Inside Xbox's executive shakeup

They bundle that stuff when it's not quite working.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Inside Xbox's executive shakeup

So I think we'll know if it's not quite working when they start doing tricks like that.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Inside Xbox's executive shakeup

But at the moment, it's still too early to say.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Inside Xbox's executive shakeup

But I mean, the mobile side, like I said with the Xbox mobile store earlier, I think the King stuff would have definitely played heavily into that.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Inside Xbox's executive shakeup

They could have sold exclusive content in that store and not have to pay 30% cut to Apple, Google, Valve, etc.,

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Inside Xbox's executive shakeup

So I think there was a vision for that to be additive to the business and the growth and everything.