This is how the players, the press and the publishers are all coming together and bringing about the death of video games. Don’t worry, there is a fix.
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.
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" -
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.
I don't buy COD every year and barely buy DLC among other things so no not my fault
True but there is a culture of entitlement surrounding the video game industry currently.
shooters took over this gen.. why? idk but im sure 360 had something to do with it
THank you for this article. I think ive said all I wanted to say about this gen of gamers. I just dont know what or who they are.
All I know is I pay hard earned money for the games I want to play and I mostly paly it all. I dont like to be stopped because of platform.
I enjoy them all and I look forward to them all.
But there is a HUGE section of gamers that consider themselves hardcore or true gamers because they play nothing but COD.
I know cause I've seen their gamer cards and spoken to quite a few.
Some gamers only buy say Uncharted, or Madden (sports games)
This has its validity, but it seems to me that this very niche group is the more outspoken and therefore the industry feels they speak for the majority.
I don't like MP games unless its a competitive mp game. Halo, COD, Battlefield, Gears, (honorary mention Homefront).
Thats it.
If something else comes along that can be placed with these I welcome it.
NO SP game should ever have MP in it. This means there will be no DLC for the SP game, this means that any season pass will be MP-centric, this means that this is a bogus way of extending the SP experience. Period.
Co-op games are boss, and offer a great alternative to playing solo. There are times when gamers don't want to kill each other in a box, and you may want to experience a great story with a buddy. So that it feels you are in a horror, or action movie. Nothing else compares to it when doe right.
There should be sells and an appetite for all kinds of games. Not whats happened now, which is a hot mess.
The man speaks the truth.