A user at NeoGAF has leaked some data from the NPD. These numbers include the LTD sales for Uncharted, MGS4, Gears of War, Twilight Princess and more.
Microsoft just posted the third quarter of its 2024 fiscal financial results. The software maker made $61.9 billion in revenue and a net income of $21.9 billion during Q3. Revenue is up 17 percent, and net income has increased by 20 percent.
Xbox content + services up 62% while hardware down 31%... seems about right with the way they tout you don't need the hardware to play. People can play on their phones or smart tv or other means. I don't hardly play on my consoles directly since getting devices like the logitech g-cloud and ps portal. Which is to also say I have been playing more digital than physical because of these devices.
As of right now, there are no monopolies in the games industry, and for the sake of the medium as a whole, they never should either.
And yet the biggest tech companies in America are essentially that. They buy up all the small comps only to kill them off and steal what they have, and if they can't buy em they bleed them to death.
Eventually they’ll realize the value is with the employee not the company. Buying an IP means nothing if the people who contributed are let go. They’ll get it one day.
tech is different because they buy threats and then kill them. Twitter bought Vine and did nothing with it. Despite people seemingly liking it. Could've had tiktok a decade before bytedance. go figure.
They buy IPs not talent. That's why these buyouts never work and the IPs die. Right now it's too expensive to develop games - but I expect that to shift maybe as AI tools can make it easier. The best games have been indie games for awhile as big developers fuck their ips to death with "games as a service" -
INDIE Live Expo, Japan’s premiere online digital showcase series , will debut never-before-seen games & content updates across more than 100 titles on May 25th.
hmmm, looks like A Crack in time didnt do too well. Did TOD reach a million?
Also i wonder what the numbers for R2 are.
Glad U2 is selling so well though, it deserves it!!
Seeing some of those figures is depressing, hopefully the European/Japanese numbers were better to boost a few sales here and there.
Valkyria Chronicles should be selling a lot more! what is wrong with people!
looks like xbox games dont really clear a million in the States either. ^^
the numbers are not great on all consoles except the wii and DS, no surprise to be honest except i thought the 360 would do better on home turf