The success of Call Of Duty: Black Ops 6 made Microsoft the biggest game publisher in the world last month, according to the latest data. Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard has given a major boost to Xbox’s financials over the past year, but at that point its multiformat ambitious were less clear than they are now.

For the month of December, Xbox was the biggest video games publisher in the world — according to a recent number-crunching analysis. The data comes from Ampere, which states that $465 million was spent on games owned and published by Microsoft, making it the largest publisher of them all last month.

While all eyes are on Nintendo's Switch 2, Microsoft's console strategy appears to be paying dividends as Xbox was the world's biggest publisher in December 2024

An analytics firm has handed Microsoft the games publishing crown. With almost half a billion in spending, Microsoft's multiplatform strategy is paying off for Xbox, at least according to this analysis.

According to Amphere, Microsoft was by far the biggest video game publisher in the world in December, thanks to Activision Blizzard.