How well can games run on the new ultra-HD standard - and are next-gen consoles invited to the party?
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.
Activision: "we gonna need a bigger rucksack/backpack please"
Microsoft: "why's that"
Activision: "to carry yo' weak ass'
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" -
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.
1080p resolution and 4k with scaling chips thats what will happen with next gen consoles with the odd arcade game surporting it and prob sony surporting 4k blu ray films.
I don't believe ANY Ps Orbis games will run in full 4K. At best they will be either 1080p or sub 1080p games up-scaled(*stretched) to run on 2k or 4k HD signals.
All we can hope for is 1080p at 60fps. I honestly don't see a point in upscaling unless it's true 4k, and even if there was 4k on next gen it would still be pointless. No one has 4k TVs except for the rich. Although, I do see support for 4K films near 2020 when 4K TVs get cheaper.
Super Stardust 4K FTW!
More BS articles, look at pc gaming and bad system hogging games like Crysis, you would be lucky to get 40FPS on a mid-high end graphics card, speaking of which.. sometimes we get mid range cards within 10% of the performance of a high end one that costs a lot more. So if a game runs crap on the mid range card it's gonna on the high end one. Nobody wants games that take 2-3 years for a new graphics card to play it 60FPS at med-high settings.
I remember back in 04 when i bought an expensive 6800 Ultra card for Half Life 2 and Doom 3, even on that high end card Doom 3 would drop as low as around 20FPS on high settings. Now that is a joke, games should be coded better, or at least not hog med-high end hardware so bad that it runs crap. That was at like 1024x768 nevermind HD.
4K res is a long way off from being anywhere near playable unless you want to play games that are like 7-8 years old. 1080P will be the sweet spot for speed and quality for a while yet.