Juan gives an indepth, technical insight into the next generation of consoles:
"As George Dubya once famously said, “…there’re rumours on the, uh, Internets” that the current generation of consoles is coming to an end. As sad (or as happy) as that may make you feel, it’s happening and there’s nothing you can do about it. In fact, it’s happening so fast, we’ll have a next-generation console in our hands by the end of the year.
In celebration of this fact, we’ve compiled all of the latest rumours (and chimed in with some of our own views along the way) regarding the next generation of games consoles."
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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.
Too expensive hardware when others offer the same or more for less? Good work, Green Team.
"Despite some early successes for Xbox games on rival platforms, Xbox hardware is down by a massive 31 percent this quarter."
"Without Activision Blizzard, Microsoft’s overall gaming revenue would have actually declined this quarter."
"Xbox content and services would have only been up a single percent without Activision Blizzard..."
"It looks like next quarter is going to be a similar story for gaming at Microsoft, too."
That is crazy... so A/B/K is carrying the whole Xbox gaming.
Oh and Microsoft will be fine. Windows, Office and Cloud are growing with each pc purchase.
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.
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" -
If every thing is true Sony will have a good console next gen.
Thats if sony can afford there next generation consoles at the minute they are taking losses and $2 billion loss is massive even for a big giant like sony lets hope the vita can make some hard earned money for sony.
Is it bad to be more worried about the upcoming state of gaming than of the actual consoles next generation.....
both sony and ms need to ship next gen this year, they are losing marketshare by the second to pc gaming (steam alone has 40 million and growing) iphone/ipad, facebook games, flash, 3ds, vita, psp, android ect...... all cutting into their market and delivering all kinds of new and exciting experiences while big console games just play it safe with part 4 of this, part 5 of that,
.....time to move on, the games look bad on console compared to old pc games, and they look downright terrible compared to games like bf3, metro2033, crysis 1 and 2, arma 2, hard reset, the witcher 2, all generations beyond consoles!