VGChartz Reports the Weekly sales for week ending Dec 29th, 2007 were as follows:
DS: 443,046 (-52%)
WII: 325,762 (-56%)
360: 188,145 (-50%)
PS2: 153,047 (-50%)
PSP 150,238 (-46%)
PS3 143,771 (-35%)
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.
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" -
Gary Green said: We have a juxtaposition of 2D and 3D visuals, flashy turn-based combat, quirky anime characters with cheeky dialogue with plenty of partial nudity; Yes, this is a Compile Heart JRPG. Whilst the engine is borrowed from Hyperdimension Neptunia mk2, Mugen Souls is more of a Disgaea spin-off. It’s not a strategy RPG as such, it merely sits within Disgaea’s ever-expanding universe (Multiverse? Netherverse? Your guess is as good as mine). You won’t find cameos though, since Mugen Souls is a franchise which aims to stand on its own two feet.
is this new?
Yeah it now has all the software sales, and such, and more accurate Ps2 sales appearently.
What was reported earlier was just hardware on the front page, this break downs everything.
No More Heroes and Rygar and SSBB are worthy of that slice.
Disagree you may but .....Pie don't Lie =)
Dang wat a drop off on all sales. PS3 and 360 are only 40k difference in console sales.
Interesting worldwide sales if you hit the link.
DS, 903,959 (-) 64,585,297
WII, 609,917 (-) 19,203,390
PS3, 390,585 (-) 8,861,659
PS2, 375,719 (-) 114,886,925
PSP, 334,931 (-) 29,597,566
360, 330,300 (-) 16,023,566
GBA, 47,236 (-) 79,546,413
GC, 2,415 (-) 21,512,362
Well done MS on reaching the 16m figure. PS3 doing good business
it seems (VG Charts being what they are of course!).