Critically Sane discusses why we've allowed our hobby to be surrounded by all sorts of unfortunate anger and vitriol.
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" -
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.
Like the article mentioned, this really is all about fanning the flames of hate, probably because anger is one of the simplest and strongest emotions out there. To give you an idea, look at how the bubble system works on N4G. If you want to gain a bubble, it's probably going to take you hundreds of posts / comments before you cobble together the right words in the right situation to get the right response. Now if you want to lose bubbles, you can get down to 1 in a day if you make enough posts. This all relates to how powerful anger is and why so many sites go for it.
With that being said, I take it that the author (I can't find their rank) either has a boss that is, well I am sorry if it sounds offensive, but lets say unambitious or he himself is unambitious. I say this because I've written for a number of sites and I can outright tell you that you were ALWAYS encouraged to post things that would get views and discouraged to post things that would appeal to a select minority. This is because there was always more money to be made, companies to wow and status to obtain. Even once you have it all, there are still people who want to become the "best" and really don't care how they get there. This also relates to why YouTube channels and such are up.
Generally speaking, a lot of the rise in YouTube popularity relates to the fall of "game journalist" creditability. We're getting to a point where writers will ignore countless facts just so they can make their claim in a way that will get views. This all relates to larger issues I am sure most people are aware of, but generally speaking, their fall has simply given rise to another group.
I think the question is directed to PS4 extremist. This generation is going to be about games.
Because Sony fanboys cry everytime there is good news about anything other than their precious Playstation 4