Matt Murdock deserves his own solo game. Here's why.
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.
Good article. I totally agree with you. I believe back in the early 2000s, I am not sure if it was activision, they had a Daredevil game in the early stages of development but it was cancelled
Daredevil is one of my favorite super heroes.
DD and Spawn are so terribly underrated that it kind of pisses me off. All people are going mad about is Batman, Spiderman or Wolverine, but DD, Spawn, or Punisher is equally awesome if you ask me. And what do they get?
Punisher gets sh#tty games that don't do justice to the character (excluding the awesome arcade game). Spawn, gets nothing at all (again there's a decent arcade game but that's about it). Daredevil, man I can't think of ANY game that he's been in. Now that's just SAD.
Instead we have a prequel to Batman Arkham games, oh great. At least it looks like Turtles are getting a decent video game in the near future.
Great article - DD does need to be taken to the next level and when the sounds of the next gen consoles they probably good do a damn good job on it! To get a reboot of the system, I could see a series on tv happening - Agents of SHIELD is starting up, maybe thats the avenue to take to get it going again!?!
I love to see that happens .. it would be awesome if rocksteady made it and it would be super easy. just switch batman with dd. instead of the detective mode you have dd radar and extra senses. also you can listen to the conversation going on in the city .. and if a crime is happening you know the place .. just like finding a political prisoner in arkham city.
I fucking hope they make another movie soon.
my love for dd came from the movie that everyone is hating on. just recently I started reading the comics starting from frank miller .. it was awesome ..and then the Bendis run which fucking blow me away! FUCKING BRILLIANT! now Ive reached the ed brubaker run. haven't started yet.