Years past, the list of games showing at E3 has been absolutely huge. This year, not so. The list contains games from just 10 publishers. 25 other publishers are listed, with their games yet to be announced.
Notable entries so far include:
* Devil May Cry 4 (Capcom)
* Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trials and Tribulations (Capcom)
* Turok (Disney)
* Star Wars: The Force Unleashed (Lucasarts)
* Unreal Tournament 3 (Midway)
* Little Big Planet (Sony)
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" -
GL compiles a list of some of the most mind-blowing video game narrative twists in recent memory, from The Last of Us to Outer Wilds
With articles like these cant you tag the games mentioned so that we can know ahead of time if there’s a spoiler to avoid?
Not clicking on your article otherwise.
Err, what list have they been reading. This is the biggest line-up in years. And this is still being added too.
And how can you leave Killzone PS3 out of the notable entries list?
I can't wait for Force Unleashed.
I want to play that game...I bet the target demo is no where near hwo the action is in the demo...KILLZONE lets talk about that for a min either it will be good or bad I wonder is there middle ground for that title...yet there could be like the last title...it wasnt bad jsut wasnt all that great either...I liked it...Also I wonder wat trick xbxo got up here sleeve...I mean 08 is look bleek compared to MGS and final fantasy and the if they make a FF7 remake for ps3(exclusive) people in japan would go crazy and there would be a mild rush here in america...I wanna play R@C just because it looks so damn good..that game looks just as good as gears of war...(my opnion) its not like you can take my bubbles away (xbxots did that already) o yeah jason that comment was cute shout me out again...I love it
Microsoft
TBA
Nintendo
TBA
Sony
Heavenly Sword (PS3)
Home (PS3)
Killzone 2 (PS3)
Lair (PS3) (When's this getting released then? Better be right after the show)
LittleBigPlanet (PS3)
Ratchet and Clank Future: Tools of Destruction (PS3)
SingStar (PS3)
SOCOM Confrontation (PS3)
Uncharted: Drake's Fortune (PS3)
Warhawk (PS3)
Those are of note.
A long list haven't listed their games yet, thus a lot more to come:
1C Company
2K Games
Activision
Atlus Software
Bethesda Softworks
Codemasters
Crave Entertainment
Eidos Interactive
Foundation 9 Entertainment
GSC GameWorld
id Software
Konami Digital Entertainment
Majesco Entertainment
Microsoft
Namco Bandai Games
Natsume
NCSoft
Nintendo
Rebellion
SEGA
Sierra Entertainment
Square Enix
THQ
Ubisoft
Warner Bros. Interactive
All not listed anything YET