Online news reports are claiming that the Xbox 360 is outselling the PS3 and the Wii. Well, of course they are! It's the only next-gen console that is actually on sale, the other two are only available for as long as the next shipment lasts, with no reprieve for the vast majority of users that want one until 2007.
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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.
to you it may seem like the minority... but your bubble is shrinking because more and more are following suit. convenience is a hell of a drug and its also why physical sales only amount to 30% of overall game sales. times are changing, you either get with them or you get left behind.
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
MS is after diminishing consoles as a medium. They want to destroy this market because they couldnt win. MS’s vision is to dissolve console gaming.
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.
Perfectly reasonable post down voted by insecure corporation friendly folk.... But not gamers. Real gamer want accessibility and ease of acquisition for all.... Company shills are the only ones still telling us that hardware locking people from games is good for us.
In the last two years they've started exiting the consumer market altogether. All of the newest Surface products are business models only. They can't seem to work out what they want to do with it.
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
The only growth MS will get out of the console industry is if it supports it's rivals platforms. Xbox is a pointless machine now. I can see them on a big push for live next, and they won't give up on trying to buy Steam.
Just wait untill all the Sony fanboys get thier PS3's and the Wii becomes as fun as the "GLOVE" or the "POWER PAD" or "ROB", OK i'll stop.
.... -- "But this is hardly the final outcome. Next year will see millions more PS3’s and Wii’s available worldwide, with the best time to really look at the figures to see how consoles have been selling being the middle of 2007 and after the Christmas shopping season of 2007 is over.
Nevertheless, people want statistics and figures now, and they seem to be forthcoming." -- .....
....IMHO the story ended there. Everything else is is known already --just fluff for the Monday morning ed.. It's just regurgitated over and over. Give me something new. You know what I mean?
BTW - Blast Factor looks tight, feels good - (a little old, but still kicks a$$) despite the bad reviews. ...And yeah p.o.g.II, I've been playing my friend's wii and his 7 yr. old kid whupped my a$$ in bowling!(and I was going all out) - pathetic. I felt like an idiot, but should've just flicked the stick in the air like he did - a strike everytime. The batting felt a little akward in baseball, and tennis was fun as hell, but I was a little wore out from all that s#it. It's fun. Party fun. And yeah I'd still rather play table tennis on 360 than wii sports tennis, because there's more of a challenge than controlling that crazy tennis ball that has a way of finding itself out of bounds; overwhelmingly more often than not. Would I wanna play it everyday - no. Will the wii go the way of ROB? Maybe, but not before a long drug out fight. *warning rehashed news:
To make matters worse I had Resistance going on a WEGA next to his Zelda TP on the old Phillips and err there was no comparison in graphics. All I can say is that Ninty fans are mighty forgiving. Don't get me wrong Zelda is Epic, but those graphics simply aren't up to par with today's gamers if you ask me. And that might make me a little upset that the graphics of my beloved system aren't up to snuff with the "other guys". But, the Ninty fans will decide that for us. We'll just have to wait and see.
Said a few months ago that the ps3 would outsell the 360 this christmas. ha ha ha ha ha...Remember when they said that the 360 sales would cease come the Ps3 launch. ha ha ha ha....I just love how things have came back and hit them sony rabid fans in the face. Reality check time. The 360 is now selling at a faster rate since the launch of the ps3. Selling out in stores and production is in full stride. They live in eternal denial when it comes to the 360. 10 million here we come. Gears of War will be the biggest selling next gen title till Halo 3 comes out. Thanks Microsoft. Keep up the Fantastic Work.
top gamer. I thought you were gonna step out there and say something creative & noteworththy; maybe something against the MSFT party line. Damn! Was I wrong. Are you Bill Gates son? C'mon tell the truth. Really, you need to save some chum for the rest of the MS assassins. As far as the people you mentioned predicting that the
-- "360 sales would cease come the Ps3 launch." --
...that's purely laughable and shouldn't in any way shape, fashion or form, have Ever been taken seriously. Gamer, I understand your glee with MSFT's initial sales figures through fy 2006, but you're neglecting the absolute fact that MSFT has only eaten a mere 5% into SCEA's overall mkt.s. and the slim shady PS2 is still killing the streets, big tyme. So...I dunno man, I like your stats, but it'll be a while before you or anyone else can legitimately call "next-gen" scoreboard. And stop voting for yourself man. Show some class.
Yes, the 360 is readily available on shelves and the other two consoles aren't. But it should still be noted that the 360 continues to sell...I think it's unfair to say "of course it's selling more!" without an understanding as to why it's selling.
Let's face it, if the 360 was a crappy console it wouldn't be selling. The fact is that the 360 is a very good console, with the best online service and a solid library of games.