Blizzard was the best performing Xbox studio through the firm’s final fiscal 12 months, in response to a reported inner electronic mail despatched to employees.
The e-mail, reportedly written by Blizzard president Johanna Faries to employees and forwarded to Home windows Central, states that the final monetary 12 months – the interval from July 1, 2025 to June 30, 2026 – was the third-highest for income within the studio’s historical past.
“In FY26 Blizzard ended the 12 months because the top-performing studio in Xbox‘s studios division, and this previous 12 months has marked our third highest fiscal for high line income in Blizzard’s historical past,” Faries’ electronic mail learn.
It additionally said that, for a studio that’s seen rises and falls through the years, fiscal years 2025 and 2026 “had been our first back-to-back years of progress since FY17”.
Faries instructed employees that the principle causes for its excessive income within the final monetary 12 months had been Overwatch and the second growth for Diablo 4, Lord of Hatred, which was launched in April.
“Diablo 4: Lord of Hatred and Overwatch drove distinctive efficiency particularly, with Overwatch delivering its strongest quarter since 2022,” she mentioned.
She added that the corporate’s robust monetary outcomes will assist it to speculate extra in Blizzard video games and employees, in addition to different initiatives that can “form Blizzard’s future”, although it seems she didn’t specify what that entails.
Blizzard’s reported success for the monetary 12 months ending June 2026 can have been at the very least one comfort for Xbox, which noticed an general decline in income over the 12 months.
Based on its This autumn FY2026 outcomes – which cowl the interval from April 1 to June 30, 2026 – Xbox content material and providers income declined 10% in comparison with the identical This autumn outcomes the earlier 12 months, with {hardware} income additionally dropping 13%. Comparable declines had been additionally reported in Q1, Q3 and Q3.
Final month Xbox CEO Asha Sharma posted on X that the expectation was that the corporate would begin seeing ‘progress’ once more by the top of FY2027 (which ends June 30, 2027).
