Which? Convo: With the recent launch of the Xbox One, gamers (including me) are crying foul of Microsoft’s alienation of Xbox 360 owners by excluding backwards compatibility. But is playing older games really that important?
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 part of its plans to cut 1,900 jobs, Microsoft has reportedly shut down operations at Bethesda France, letting go roughly 15 people
Bethesda France was made up of roughly 15 people... they couldn't of being doing much
Bethesda France mainly did publishing and marketing within the region
Bethesda France focused on publishing and marketing in the region. And 15 people lost their jobs as part of the closure.
I wonder if this is part of Microsoft's strategy to abandoned physical media or possibly gamepass advertising makes their roles redundant you don't need to market a game as hard when the majority of players get the game as part of a sub which already promoted upcoming games
Tbh Microsoft I think Bethesda being 3rd party same with Activision would probably more competitive than thus scenario imo
The recently purchased Activision French offices might take over all the licensing and marketing for Microsoft in France from now on.
Hanzla from eXputer inquires: "If Xbox can care about preserving its games and legacy, what exactly is wrong with Nintendo, trying to kill game preservation single-handedly?"
Ahh yes the good old game preservation of saving all your games to a removable hhd on the Xbox 360, taking it round your mates house, setting up multiple tvs to
Be met with “save data corrupted, please re download”
Or how about removing 360 games
From the store
, download them now or else, and, better hope to god that save data doesn’t corrupt, or it’s lost for ever
Nice one ☝️
This is just a scammy PR move to distract from the fact they are going digital only and trying to push streaming and subscriptions only.
No gaming company has pushed harder to remove ownership than Microsoft.
Without discs there is no preservation, preservation can't be done by the rights holders it can only be done by the consumers, anything else is a lie.
Nobody wants this. Sales or the lack of it in the case of XBOX is very telling. I wonder how the adorably all digital series X will fare. Adorably dismal perhaps?
Only time will tell, but for from someone like me suspecting that Xbox is trying to gracefully exit the console market, that "forward compatibility" team is trying to get Xbox games playing on Windows PCs. I mean, it's nice that they're not planning on exiting with a "enjoy your games while the hardware still works" message, so that's nice. They still have a brand to protect via Microsoft so probably feel obligated to have a better exit strategy.
If the fact Xbox One is not BC wasn't bad enough, then the fact that it also must always be online in order to play games and forces a mandatory fee to play used games is an absolute deal breaker.
Who cares if this guy doesn't buy an xbox one. The console will sell millions an millions and millions.
For me BC is not a total deal breaker BUT it does add another check mark in the Negative column for the Xbox One.
My main issues are
1. Kinect required for system to work.
I don’t want a surveillance system in my living room AND I will never use anything Kinect offers.
It also drives the cost up for something I don’t want.
Did you also realize that the new system will NOT come with a headset? AND Microsoft changed they system in such a way that your current headset won’t work with them, they are forcing their vendors to come up with a new design that work with the new system.
2. Used/Rented/borrowed game policy.
Bottom line it sucks and you are greedy bastards.
3. DRM/internet required.
I’m not the thief here M$, seems to me that you are in trying to steal my privacy.
So if my internet is down when you happen to ping me my system shuts off and I can’t play anything? You don’t see the issue with that?
4. Disk installs.
You have a 500Gb HD right? A Blu-ray holds 25Gb right? By my math that is 20 games excluding any DLC I D/L’ed, avatar items, saved videos or whatever else I wish to keep. Hmmm….
Granted the Devs may not use the full 25gb on a disk but I think you get the point.
Seems to me you are forcing me to game the way you want me to game and NOT the way I want to game, Ummm who is the one that spent their money here?
Just Wait For E3.
"Hardware wise the PS4 isn't BC but Gaikai will be able to run older gen games. Now I know it won't run every PS1, PS2 and PS3 but at least Sony is offering something rather than nothing at all. "
.......... But you would have to be connected to the internet at all times to play those games. + it will not be free. To be fair, you could just keep your ps3/360.
What's good for the goose is good for the gander, right? You can't bash Microsoft and give Sony a pass. Its the same situation (not entirely).
Why dont we all just skip next gen!!!!!!