Microsoft Was Both Xbox and PlayStation’s Top Q3 FY2025 Publisher by Pre-Orders and Pre-Installs

While Xbox’s unique hardware market share has declined rapidly and consistently in recent years, Microsoft continues to grow impressively. The company has released several major first-party Xbox titles for PlayStation and Nintendo Switch over the last year (particularly the former), and has now moved entirely to multiplatome publishers that are currently enjoying profits.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella revealed in her recent quarterly fiscal briefing for the third quarter of 2024-25, which ran from January to the end of March (via Tom Warren on Twitter). Xbox was not only the Xbox Store, but also the PlayStation Store, but also the “top publisher” with pre-orders and pre-installed orders. Arranged things like Mythological Age: Retold, Forza Horizon 5, and Indiana Jones and the Great For the PS5 in the early months of 2025, that’s not a big surprise.

Meanwhile, PC Game Pass saw revenue of 45% year-on-year, but cloud games have surpassed the collective 150 million hours of time that the entire user base plays, setting records and marking those numbers for the first time. Importantly, across all first-party Microsoft titles on all platforms (including PlayStation, Switch and Mobile as well as Xbox and PC), the company saw over 500 million active users per month during the quarter.

Xbox Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella Q3, 2025:

• “I finished Q as a top publisher with pre-orders and pre-installation on both the Xbox and PlayStation stores.”
PC Game Pass revenues increase by 45% year-on-year
•New Cloud Game Record: This Q was the first time I played in over 150 million hours. pic.twitter.com/xmwbmvru8e

– Tom Warren (@tomwarren) April 30, 2025