"Where’s the so praised cloud power? Because it seems that it isn’t helping Xbox One at all."
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.
As part of its plans to cut 1,900 jobs, Microsoft has reportedly shut down operations at Bethesda France, letting go roughly 15 people
Bethesda France was made up of roughly 15 people... they couldn't of being doing much
Bethesda France mainly did publishing and marketing within the region
Bethesda France focused on publishing and marketing in the region. And 15 people lost their jobs as part of the closure.
I wonder if this is part of Microsoft's strategy to abandoned physical media or possibly gamepass advertising makes their roles redundant you don't need to market a game as hard when the majority of players get the game as part of a sub which already promoted upcoming games
Tbh Microsoft I think Bethesda being 3rd party same with Activision would probably more competitive than thus scenario imo
The recently purchased Activision French offices might take over all the licensing and marketing for Microsoft in France from now on.
Hanzla from eXputer inquires: "If Xbox can care about preserving its games and legacy, what exactly is wrong with Nintendo, trying to kill game preservation single-handedly?"
Ahh yes the good old game preservation of saving all your games to a removable hhd on the Xbox 360, taking it round your mates house, setting up multiple tvs to
Be met with “save data corrupted, please re download”
Or how about removing 360 games
From the store
, download them now or else, and, better hope to god that save data doesn’t corrupt, or it’s lost for ever
Nice one ☝️
This is just a scammy PR move to distract from the fact they are going digital only and trying to push streaming and subscriptions only.
No gaming company has pushed harder to remove ownership than Microsoft.
Without discs there is no preservation, preservation can't be done by the rights holders it can only be done by the consumers, anything else is a lie.
Nobody wants this. Sales or the lack of it in the case of XBOX is very telling. I wonder how the adorably all digital series X will fare. Adorably dismal perhaps?
Only time will tell, but for from someone like me suspecting that Xbox is trying to gracefully exit the console market, that "forward compatibility" team is trying to get Xbox games playing on Windows PCs. I mean, it's nice that they're not planning on exiting with a "enjoy your games while the hardware still works" message, so that's nice. They still have a brand to protect via Microsoft so probably feel obligated to have a better exit strategy.
It has since rained on many parts of the usa and europe, hence the cloud has gone.
Phil Spencer said that they'll be showing something more concere soon enough.
Still, they made a big hoopla about it and haven't really delivered anything apart from the Cloud operating at its basic level as dedicated server support (which to me is the most important thing anyway).
Odd article...considering Titanfall is about to release, and the game makers have REPEATEDLY stated how important the cloud has been and that the game could not exist without it. Seems like this would mean this OPINION piece is either just denial or ignorance. It's weird how often people want to dismiss the cloud as nothing....then have absolutely no idea what they are talking about.
"While the competition has managed to obtain the standard of 1080p and 60 FPS"... Are you kidding me, hardly any games maintain this standard on PS4 and if they do, they hardly ever maintain 60 FPS, it drops consistently.to 30 - 50 FPS (e.g. Killzone, Ghosts, BF4, Tomb Raider, etc)
PS4 standards is 1080p 30 FPS, while XB1 seems to be 720/900p 30 FPS.
Hanging out with Milo in the smoke and mirrors.
I am skeptical of this Cloud, mostly because the devs say how great it is, but we never get any examples of what it does per se. When new rendering, computing, or tech developers talk and give us all the info they can... They act like a kid in a candy store. We knew The Order 1886 was using Soft Body Mesh very fast. We knew allot about the PS4, we knew the PS3 was tough to code for due to multithreading on the Cell being harder to calibrate.
What do we know about this Cloud? NOTHING, all the devs say is it's vital to this game and that game, but give no comments to back up how it is better. It helped Titanfall? For what 720p? If this Cloud is so powerful, could it not have gotten higher?
I hope MS can show it soon, and I hope it is good. But until they showcase it very well, I do not believe it has any credibility towards the systems games.