The Colorado tragedy was a senseless crazy act by an insane individual, but was it caused by video games? That's what an analyst on CNN said he attributed the violence to.
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.
"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.
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.
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" -
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Jesus Christ... video games doesn't make anyone violent.
I've been playing video games for so many years now, I've never got the urge to kill anyone.
It's just such an easy excuse for people to make when trying to explain something that is inexplicable, like these shootings were.
Video Games are a catalyst for normal human beings to have fun and simplify there time, perhaps experience art such as many titles.
Psychopaths were always going to kill somebody weather they picked up a game of mario or not.
Video Games can actually be therapeutic given the right circumstances and individual.
This is reminiscent of so many cases that seem to crop up. Where people that don't actually have any insight into a persons' mindset at or prior to an atrocity are asked their opinion. Pat Brown gave this one (that's the one you just read the headline of in case you were wondering).
http://www.foxnews.com/ente... Leonard Berkowitz gave this one.
Here it is for you lazy f#@%ers that don't want to give Fox the hit: “There have been a tremendous number of studies showing that violent movies can indeed increase the likelihood that somebody in the audience will act aggressively,” He then continued with "“There is considerable research that such an effect could have indeed taken place. Just as people get sexual ideas from watching a sexual movie, other people can get aggressive ideas from watching an aggressive movie. Those members of the of the audience who have some violent tendencies or an aggressive disposition may then be influenced to act upon those ideas.”
Seems strange that both Pat and Lenny missed the fact that the person in question had just had their life fall apart. The obviously lack of any support network (friends/family) and the lack of effort put in by the College (that tossed him out) to ensure his well being don't even rate a mention. I mean are we suppose to believe this guy simply woke one morning and decided: "today's the day I train to become a mass murderer." I mean seriously. What a crock!
As far as I'm concerned, if the causes were treated (or at least noticed) there wouldn't be any need for scapegoating. The damn thing wouldn't have happened in the first place. Of course people would have to accept responsibility for their actions (or lack there of) after the fact. Which brings us back to scapegoating.
F#@%in' marvelous isn't it. I'm gettin' dizzy.