Xbox's Multiplatform Releases Made Microsoft The Top Game Publisher In The World Last Month

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Data firm Ampere has released some interesting stats about the month of December in gaming - stats that name Microsoft as the top publisher in the world for the final month of 2024. According to the analyst group, $465 million was spent on Xbox games last month, making Microsoft the biggest publisher across Xbox, PlayStation and PC.

As expected, Call of Duty drove that customer spending in a big way. The launch of Black Ops 6 has been huge for Microsoft, with the COD HQ launcher bringing in 38 million users in November last year, seemingly followed up by a huge December for the franchise as well.

Interestingly, 64% of the above Microsoft revenue figure was spent on PlayStation platforms, with Black Ops 6 being the main driver of that percentage. We learned late last year that the Xbox to PlayStation split for Black Ops 6 massively favoured the Sony platform, so that number is perhaps no surprise here.