As part of an in-depth feature interview appearing on Gamasutra today, EA CCO Bing Gordon has discussed how the company "underestimated Epic again" regarding Unreal Engine, also suggesting of Ubisoft takeover chatter: "I think everybody is for sale".
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.
you should apply in MS PR team buddy, I think you will do a great job in my humble opinion :)
MS: "Xbox services and content without AB up 1%, with AB up 62%. Hardware down 31%. In total a loss of 350 mill."
darthv72: "Seems about right."
MS: "Excuse m ..."
darthv72: "I don't hardly play on my consoles directly."
MS:
I can tell people like you are an absolute minority..
If service is up means their fans and fanboys accepted this model and subscribed to it. The near future you will see a big decline because the service is saturated.
But that's been ms for years. When things aren't going their way they try to change the way things are said. For instance console sales are down, they stop telling how many sold instead telling us how many hours spent in halo or headshots. So it makes sense console sales down just say people are playing on more devices then previous. What they won't say is how many xbox players jumped ship to ps5.
Hardware sales are so bad that Sony and Nintendo are blowing the sales off the water with their hardware.
If Xbox are losers, others aren’t..
Xbox already tried everything with Xbox live then subscriptions went down so much that they had to find something else. Their fans subscribed then reached saturation rather quickly.
Hardware and exclusive games is where it’s at! Keep gamers excited, announce decent software and people will support you
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'
Top brass have also wanted to start seeing returns on the 100 billion they have put into various Xbox related moves so seeing more multiplatform games is highly likely especially from abk
It's basically saying that PlayStation is the reason Xbox is afloat right now thinks to Ps5 versions of COD
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" -
INDIE Live Expo, Japan’s premiere online digital showcase series , will debut never-before-seen games & content updates across more than 100 titles on May 25th.
EA is such a jerk. If it wasn't for RenderWare, they wouldn't have yearly Madden, NFS and even great games like Burnout and Black. RenderWare is last gen and comparing it with UE3 is like comparing Unreal Engine 2 with 3. Its just stupid. They are stupid. Wait until Burnout Paradise shows its true form. And they are already publishing Crysis using CryEngine. Don't they think of anything besides UE and money?
Could they be any more generic and money hungry? When is the last time they made a game that was better than a competing game in the same genre?? Every game is done using the lowest common denominator when it comes to multiplatform titles, and YOU KNOW they almost always go for multiplatform titles because...... THEY ARE MONEY HUNGY! It's quantity over quality with EA.
Madden is bug riddem, NBA live is the same. All of their movie based games are complete uninspired garbage. They recycle game engines and don't listen to anything the consumer wants. PLEASE stop buying their games so they have some incentive to step up their game.
I want the EA games of the 90s back!!!
I hope to god EA doesn't buy Ubisoft. Competition is good I feel as if they takeover Ubisoft they won't make as good games anymore because they won't have to compete against EA.
Thats what you get EA, its not Epics fault that all your game engines suck. If EA had a Renderware product they would be saying the opposite but they don't so now there stuck with high cost development. Take the pain EA, this is what you get for fu*king over gamers and devs all these years.
bootsielon Have you ever heard of EA? Go ask EA if they support there product after launch. Good god my spelling is horrable and my grammer sucks but you your just plain stupid.
Go ask 2k sports how they like EA.
You don't need to buy their games. There is an alternative for everything they make, so Zip it.
"EA is crap" yeah, that's why Madden and nearly every other sports franchise, the sims, and everything else they make keeps selling and making them richer, despite the fact that they do have competition. Unlike some monopolies, right Jason?
I'm not pro-EA, I'm anti-stupidity.