Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT ) is hoping that diehard gamers will save the day. Shares of the software giant moved sharply lower on Friday after posting disappointing quarterly results, but one of the rare pockets of inspirational growth in the report was a 20% spike in transactional revenue within Xbox Live
After years of development, Project Awakening is still nowhere to be seen. What exactly is going on?
I was impressed with the trailer and hoped to find out more and then it fell off the map with no new information. Not sure if it's vaporware or not but I stopped thinking about it and moved on. Maybe it was moved to a new and improved engine, moved to PS5 development and suffers the long Dev times that many games had/have suffered from lately. Who knows. But we'll see.
As for gaming bolt, that video was trash. A long winded video that says nothing for 7 minutes going back and forth on it may or may not still exist and just kept going and going and going trying to produce an informative video with barely any information. Like an article with a word quota that's just paragraphs of nothing. Showing me that they haven't gotten any better at game journalism. If we can even call it that.
One of the directors for the game already said that game was still being worked on just last month....
https://80.lv/articles/proj...
Just how shock-ing is it?
EA has come under fire for making unexpected changes to its FC 24 Team of the Season unlocks.
Stop buying the fucking game! It is no secret that the game is based around opening packs that need to be bought with real money if you want to be competitive. Yes I know, you have the chance to get the cards without investing real money, but that is a real grind and you still may never get the cards you want. This is not new and it will not change if people keep buying the game/packs.
I think it should be the other way around
"Can Microsoft save the Xbox"
MS doesn't need saving, they're filthy rich.
Wait. WHAT?
I know this is a gaming site. I know people like the Xbox brand, but here's the truth: any money the XBox brand makes (or loses) is a drop in the bucket for Microsoft. I know this comes as a shock, but Microsoft DOES NOT CARE VERY MUCH about the Xbox division compared to their other larger and more profitable branches. Why else was Xbox buried within another division during the recent reorg?
I'm not bashing Xbox but honestly, Xbox is not going to save or hurt Microsoft. It's way too small of a division in the grand scheme of things.
"However, keep in mind that the industry's been slumping since 2009. It wasn't the anticipation of new consoles that was holding back gamers then. The growing popularity of apps played on smartphones and tablets has siphoned off a lot of casual video-game players. It's not just Microsoft's Windows business that's been hurt by the growing popularity of iOS and Android devices."
I'm so tired of hearing about the Casual gamer, the casual gamer doesn't go out and spent $100.00's of dollars on consoles or high end PC's.
The casual gamer doesn't spend $60.00 a pop on games and then more on it's DLC later on, the casual gamer DL's a free or cheap game to mindlessly pass the time at the bus stop, stop lumping the casuals in with the hardcore.
And if Microsoft doesn't stop appealing less to the casual and more towards it's core, Xbox isn't going to save a damn thing, not that it would anyway, the Xbox brand is just a small part of Microsoft as a whole.
It's a trick question - Microsoft isn't in need of saving...
Despite shares dropping and industry sales as a whole in decline, MS is still doing pretty good for itself. It's not like they'll be filing for bankruptcy anytime soon. Hell, overall, they are more wealthy than Sony.
i doubt M$ is in need of saving i am pretty sure they have more money then sony and nintendo