It's Monday, August 3rd.

Welcome to Market Fullury.

I'm Chris Hill and I'm actually off this week.

Definitely not the summer vacation I was planning back in January,

but a little time away after the past few

months we've had, I'll take it.

So this is not going to be the usual week of digging into earning season, but I certainly wasn't going to let the show go dark for a week.

So let's kick things off with a conversation I had recently with Aaron Bush.

I don't know anyone who dives into the video gaming industry like he does.

So that's what we did.

Here's my talk with Aaron.

Recently on Motley Full Money, we talked about Microsoft's latest quarter. One of the headlines was just the

gaming segment crushing it. I think it was up 64%. That's the headline. I'm

curious as someone who studies this industry what was underneath the headline that caught your attention?

Yeah, so I mean the truth of the matter is just that people are playing more games

ahead of time when people are stuck at home.

People are buying a lot more consoles than before.

Even if, you know, the console generation is coming to a close, people are still trying to find ways to stay entertained.

So it really is as simple as that.

In my opinion though, like what's more interesting than even what Xbox, you know, presented in this latest quarter

is what they're setting up for in the future. So in the past week they they

announced their next-gen showcasing a lot of their upcoming games like

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