Xbox made $2.25 billion for Microsoft last quarter

Microsoft’s video game-related revenue continues to expand as it shifts its focus to services like Game Pass. The company’s Xbox division brought in $2.251 billion in the quarter that ended March 31. That’s up 18 percent year-over-year compared to $1.906 billion in Q3 2017.

Instead of sharing how many consoles it sells, Microsoft instead focuses on its active Xbox Live users. That’s a metric it claims to care about much more since it is a service that people can access even outside of the Xbox hardware platform. In Q3 2018, Xbox Live had 59 million monthly active players. That’s up 13 percent from 52 million during the same period last year. It is also flat quarter-over-quarter compared to the busy holiday season.