Develop- Already out in the US as of November 18th and selling 400,000 units in its first week, Nintendo’s Wii U has also arrived today in the UK to much hype as the first in the next generation of consoles.
We asked developers such as Ubisoft Montpellier, Straight Right Studios, Heavy Iron, Shin'en and Frozenbyte just what they think of the platform, and how fellow developers can take advantage of the Wii U.
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" -
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.
I think the devs will be able to easily adapt for wiiU. Show me some cool games. I hope they build Miiverse into their games like MarioU has, that would be swizz.
good read and its from actual developers not some guy on twitter.
I'm excited to see more indie projects appear on Wii U. So far, many of the eShop games have been pretty impressive and it'll be great to see that first impression expand into something bigger.
Good read.
"In a way, the eShop has restored our faith in the potential of console downloadable games. We'll see how it goes in the next year.”
So NiN is charging 3rd parties next to nothing and giving developers freedom to do as they please? WOW! Now that is a smart move.
They also talk about how NIN does not micro manage. I love that idea when they are given the green light they are free to update and patch the games how they like.
Sony and MS watch out. ESP you MS!