Wedbush is expecting hardware sales of 350,000 Xbox One units and 375,000 PS4 units in their third month of release, with the Wii U bringing up the rear at just 60,000 units (although that would still represent a five percent increase year-over-year).
While on stage with Dina Bass at The Bloomberg Technology Summit the President of Xbox, Sarah Bond, was asked about the Xbox studio closures of Arkane Austin, Tango Gameworks, Alpha Dog, and Roundhouse Studios
Of course she did. She's part of the problem and will just tow the company line.
Bloomberg’s Dina Bass could barely read her scripted question without looking at her notes, whilst Sarah Bond who WAS expecting the question spoke without saying anything of substance or answering the question in any meaningful way. Clearly she’s had the same expert PR training as Phil, but this avoidance was disrespectful. In time the short-sighted decision to shut down Tango Gameworks will be seen as of the most notorious examples why Phil Spencer messed up his tenure in charge of Xbox. That’s a fully built out talented team that could’ve been put to work on any project.
Additionally, Phil Spencer should not be using Sarah Bond as a patsy for his mistakes- he should be answering that question.
She's playing her role. There's absolutely nothing any of them can say other than the truth, this is about profit margins and not quality, so they just don't answer anything and wait for gamers to forget.
I always wondered why xbox had multiple leaders with similar titles like Phil Spencer, Matt Booty, and Sarah Bond, like, how many heads do you actually need?
Seems to me it would be more cost efficient to cut 2 of them instead of all those studios.
The Pocketpair community manager has slammed the blind lies and continuous 'hate campaign' aimed at Palworld.
I mean, they should get flack. They stole designs and art, as well as used AI. They also did the same thing when it came to their other game which was a ripoff of Hollow Knight
All claims of stealing assets were from someone who modified assets to make them look the same AFAIK.
Telling of Nartide, a young girl who ignores her mother's advice, comes The Prisoner of the Night on Xbox, PlayStation and Nintendo Switch .
" Wii U bringing up the rear at just 60,000 units"
I really hope those low numbers aren't legit for the sake of Nintendo
Well January has been a bit of a slow month. Waiting to see how mid-feb to March look.
So Pachter makes his "predictions" based on NPD numbers he already got. Not hard to predict something if you have already a piece of paper that states the numbers.
January was very week with basically Tomb Raider being the only big release.
PS4 is supply constrained, but not the other next gen console.
I don't think those numbers are correct. The Wii U sold over 40,000 in one week and I doubt the numbers for the other two are that low, either.
Wait until people in the US start getting their tax refunds... hardware sales will jump up considerably