I can’t believe we’re still having this goddamn discussion.
I can’t believe I actually feel that it’s necessary for me to write this dumb article. I can’t believe that people are still arguing over what constitutes an “Ebert of Gaming” or a “Citizen Kane of Gaming” or a “Step Up 2 Fast 2 Furious XIII: Starring Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson And An Egregiously Sexualized Purple Smurf of Gaming”. I can’t believe people continue to name-drop these fairytales in hushed, reverent tones like they’re some kind of long-awaited Messiah. I can’t believe that Deus Ex creator Warren Spector is now one of those people.
Fuck this. Let’s set the record straight on gaming’s insipid inferiority complex once and for all.
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.
you should apply in MS PR team buddy, I think you will do a great job in my humble opinion :)
I can tell people like you are an absolute minority..
If service is up means their fans and fanboys accepted this model and subscribed to it. The near future you will see a big decline because the service is saturated.
But that's been ms for years. When things aren't going their way they try to change the way things are said. For instance console sales are down, they stop telling how many sold instead telling us how many hours spent in halo or headshots. So it makes sense console sales down just say people are playing on more devices then previous. What they won't say is how many xbox players jumped ship to ps5.
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.
Activision: "we gonna need a bigger rucksack/backpack please"
Microsoft: "why's that"
Activision: "to carry yo' weak ass'
Top brass have also wanted to start seeing returns on the 100 billion they have put into various Xbox related moves so seeing more multiplatform games is highly likely especially from abk
It's basically saying that PlayStation is the reason Xbox is afloat right now thinks to Ps5 versions of COD
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.
Eventually they’ll realize the value is with the employee not the company. Buying an IP means nothing if the people who contributed are let go. They’ll get it one day.
tech is different because they buy threats and then kill them. Twitter bought Vine and did nothing with it. Despite people seemingly liking it. Could've had tiktok a decade before bytedance. go figure.
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.
low quality, and bad editing, When copying text from the source article make sure you read over the text and edit it if necessary. A good example is when a site writes "We" or "I" , as this should then be replaced with the site's or person's name, or you can quote the source.
video games and films are two different forms of entertainment, like music is different to visual art as a forms of art
Games > Movies. There isn't a single thing that movies can do, that games can't also do. We can even do full body motion capture and capture exact facial emotions from Hollywood actors (Look at "Beyond: Two Souls" trailers, LA Noir, and Heavy Rain--Some of the best acting ever). Stories with deep emotional plots and amazing characters even without realistic plots too:(Persona 4, Mass Effect, Uncharted 2, Deus Ex, Tomb Raider remake, etc) which touch on topics such as race, gender, love, jealousy, religion, blasphemy, stigma's, rape, politics, drug addiction, terrorism, nationalism vs patriotism (killzone's sub-plot for example), etc.
Anyone still having doubts over the validity of games as an artform, is literally deaf, dumb and especially blind (or has a bias AGAINST interactive entertainment).
Keep in mind that Ebert (R.I.P.) was given a free ps3 with a copy of Journey. And he refused to play it. So how is his opinion even valid when he clearly had a disdain for a medium he refuses to try?
Debate over.
I think it's widely accepted in my generation that video games are a form of art, or that video games do have artistic value that can't be found in other art forms.
We have to remember it's a really young medium, and that it's evolving so quickly that people who don't have a major interest in video games probably can't follow what's happening. ( My father is a good example of that, seeing how baffled he was that video games could now look as pretty as the Avatar movie, and that such level of visual quality was the norm for many AAA titles, like Final Fantasy, etc.)
But that said, it also has to do with someone's environment. I have the pleasure to live in Montreal, and with two major studios here (Eidos and Ubisoft Montréal), video games are part of the cultural landscape as much as Cinema or Circus or Music.
Games haven't touched any of the great movies. And they wont for a long time.
8 1/2
Stalker
Citizen Kane
Chinatown
There Will Be Blood
Yeah good luck.