Nintendoeverything: "Nintendo president Satoru Iwata has, unsurprisingly, said that its new console makes use of new GPUs and technology. However, the company has pushed the specs – such as processing power – to the max so that the console will be affordable to a wide array of consumers."
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" -
On Amazon, you can't get an RTX 4090 for less than this one from Gigabyte, which now offers great value after an eye-catching April deal.
It's over 9000!
In order to keep costs low, I can understand why Wii-U is made the way it is. Unless of course, gamers are willing to shell out an extra $400-$500 if they want the "latest-n-greatest" next-gen. However, assuming they do get the best, how are they going to deal with the heat and power supply? There's a reason why gaming rigs have big chassis.
Well, it seems as though Nintendo has done it again. Hopefully it's as affordable as the rumors are saying.
By the way...nice pic.
@Digital Analog
Dealing with the heat is why cores are cut down in nanometers, using less power.
We've seen the chips in current gen PS3/360 shrink from like 90nm to half its size. Next gen chips of 25nm's or less are expected.
Same way that the PSVita uses certain low power quad core CPU. The smartphones have driven the CPU and GPU market to low power consumption, low heat producing production in a way that wouldn't have happened without the smartphones. Expect this to continue, thus no problems next gen to have more power than the current 360, PS3 and WiiU aka this gen and still have more power than it.
2nd, with cutting the size of the chips and changing up the architecture like they did with PSVita, the less electricity will get used and the less heat produced. The same reason why quad core smartphones and tablets don't need fans to cool it like laptops or desktops. Same way the PSVita doesn't run hot, even while it has power close to current gen consoles, for sure beating last gen homeconsoles by far.
The reason why gaming rigs have big chassis is because PC hardware has a lot of plug in stuff, cards to plug in, 3.5 inch HDD's instead of 2.5 inch that are in consoles, big other drives, a PC is another thing than a console. Has always been, will always be.