So if you're a PlayStation 3 owner it probably means that you are a high roller because you had the money to purchase the console. If not the former, then chances are you're probably really broke, because of the high price tag and your lack of funds to purchase one. Either way, you probably want some reassurance that your decision will be one made with much guarantee instead of regret.
Before the launch Sony has been bragging that the PlayStation 3 is not for the short run, but for the long run ahead. Ten years to be exact, which means that while the PS4 is new to the scene, the PS3 will still be strong just like the PS2 currently is.
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:
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
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" -
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The last time I did the calculation..the PS3 is actually not the expensive one.
The last time I did the calculation on the 360 with wireless, hdd, (controllers dont charge right? so battery?? sorry if i am misinformed), and online fee (i think i did 3 yrs).
and Wii, this one I factored in the price of 4 WiiMotes + nunchuks since Wii without 4 controllers = no point having it. I didn't even include battery price, but I think I did factored in two Nyko charge station. I price adjusted on median Ebay price as well since no one has the damn thing a few months ago when I did the calculations
I think the PS3 was actually one of the cheapest of the 3. Could have been cheaper if added more years of online play, but I just did 3...
Those calculations was just for myself to compare to see if i got a good deal, and indeed some systems appears to be cheap, such as the Wii but it's actually really expensive once you start to buy the periphery devices.
This is not news the PS1 and PS2 have lasted more than another console in history so the PS3 will be the same and the PS2 is still going strong even as next generations fight for the first place, the PS2 is the greatest console ever made and no one will come close as to what it did.
I think looking at all the features in the ps3 like Blu Ray, I think it's a safe bet to say the ps3 seems like the console to last the longest, while still keeping things fresh with fimware updates. Plus if you look at how the ps2 is selling you can't help but to think the ps3 will be in it for the long haul.
http://n4g.com/industrynews...
I don't care how long it last. All I know is that I will have it, until the Playstation 4 comes out, and will continue to keep it after the Playstation 4 comes out.