We've all had experience with this particular girl. You know the one, she has a passing interest in games and when she strides into a scene that's sprung up around men who have turned a love of games into a vibrant subculture… she says "now I get to make the rules. Because vagina."
It doesn't matter if there are already women in the subculture, enjoying it for its own sake, she's the self-appointed queen bee and all must bow to her pronouncements. "Because vagina. And also rape."
Anita is just the latest in a long line of girl interlopers who've decided they define the rules of gamer culture. Her bugbear? Damsels in Games.
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 :)
MS: "Xbox services and content without AB up 1%, with AB up 62%. Hardware down 31%. In total a loss of 350 mill."
darthv72: "Seems about right."
MS: "Excuse m ..."
darthv72: "I don't hardly play on my consoles directly."
MS:
What he said was facts. How he plays games is no concern of you. Don't get too mad about it.
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.
Hardware sales are so bad that Sony and Nintendo are blowing the sales off the water with their hardware.
If Xbox are losers, others aren’t..
Xbox already tried everything with Xbox live then subscriptions went down so much that they had to find something else. Their fans subscribed then reached saturation rather quickly.
Hardware and exclusive games is where it’s at! Keep gamers excited, announce decent software and people will support you
@shin
Well keep it simple Sony 's operating income is down 26% and Microsoft's is up 32%. No MS spin there, just facts. 😉
Cheers
Odd that a company that touts you dont need the hardware to play is already touting another console in the works.
They are not reliant on the HW but still want to maintain a presence (no matter how small) is a good thing. It shows commitment to the craft. It reminds me of SNK and how they made games for their own hardware (Neo Geo) while also making them for others because they knew there was a market to do so. They knew they would sell more to others but also sell to their own niche fan base.
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.
Female John Cryer. Just saying.
I'm amazed at how people think one woman's opinion on gaming automatically makes them into "rules must change because I say so" people.
I complain about immature people in online FPS games. Doesn't mean the rules do or that they should change.
It's this extremist view that men have when one person shares their opinion that causes others to speak out in a like manner. Just accept her opinion or say you disagree and move on.
Who the hell is she anyway?? I see lots of people talking about her
Well lets all get pissed off because apparently she isn't allowed to have any opinions.
Seriously wtf women in gaming get soo much shit over nothing. I remember hearing that after her kickstarter finished, she was sent pics of her being raped by different gaming characters. Which is obviously very messed up and it makes all guy gamers look bad. Why do female gamers have to prove that that they are gamers? I dont see that happen to any males? i see male reviewers play the games they review and they suck and nothing happens. Nothing should happen, people have a love of games and theres nothing wrong for asking for variety.
This guy's response to the Feminist Frequency and Tropes Vs. Women thing is thoroughly disgusting.
Look, Anita Sarkeesian's show does have a very narrow, biased point of view, and she is quite dishonest in her claims about being a gamer, that is already proven. But to take the demonizing approach makes the other side of the argument look much worse.
One thing that's undeniable is that there IS sexism and misogyny in gaming, anyone who says otherwise is deluded and part of the problem. But another part of the problem is not recognizing that there HAS been progress, and that there ARE good female characters in games, and even powerful ones. I am, for example, quite amused at the fact that Sarkeesian hasn't said anything, as far as I can find online, about the Tomb Raider reboot after it was released, while she was VERY vocal on it before release about how Lara's been turned into a victim and damsel in distress, even while she acknowledged that her design itself was improved. Anyone who's played that game can testify that it is an AMAZING "hero's journey" type of story in which we see Lara going from a victim(which ANYONE in her situation would have been, regardless of gender) to a powerful protagonist that has enemies literally shaking in fear at facing her by game's end. The fact that Sarkeesian has not commented at all about it means that she found the game damaging to her argument about sexism in games, which means she was just looking for the shock value and not for the actual worth. She also uses Princess Peach as an example of a damsel in distress, when many games have featured Peach as a protagonist and she even had her OWN game in Super Princess Peach. And that's not even mentioning games like the Mass Effect series, Shantae, Mirror's Edge or Metroid.
I think it should also be noted that a lot of the sexism in gaming is very regional as well, as in Japan is RIDICULOUSLY sexist when compared to the West. A Japanese studio is also the one which turned Samus Aran, probably the most consistently strong female character in gaming history, and turned her into a dick-whipped scared little pissant. Hell, Japan's the country in which ACTUAL rape and molestation simulators not only get developed, but sell as well. But honestly, sexuality in Japan is a whole different beast that shouldn't even be tackled in the same context as gaming because it's such an ingrained, cultural thing there.
The fact is that the entire topic of sexism in gaming demands that people keep a cool head on all sides of the argument, and that there has to be honesty all around. And one thing that no one can deny about Anita Sarkeesian is this: even if you don't agree with her, even if you vehemently dislike her, the reaction to her has been massively excessive and hateful, and it's proof that sexism IS a problem in gaming, and quite a big one at that, both within the games and without the in the gaming culture itself. She may not be honest about her gaming background and her intentions with the show might be more selfish than she lets on, but she still tapped into a very important topic that deserves attention, even if she's not the proper person to represent said topic.