Gamestop's Paul Raines discusses benefits of cartridges over disks.
It's time to add two more games to your library for free from the Epic Games Store.
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.
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Sounds good. I was hoping they would take that route. The purchase is much more satisfying when you physically have something. I hope digital stays as an option and not become the main one, as a collector it feels satisfying to have them on display. Also why are the digital games same price as physical anyway?? I could never understand that
* I would love for cartridges to make a comback. Has a ton of room for collectable potential as well.
* With special editions you could get a different colored cartridge and what not like in the N64 days.
There's only one thing that has me concerned in regards to this...
Aside from costs to outside developers, which they can probably mitigate somehow, is it possible to take the same data that's on a disk and put it onto a cartridge with any sort of ease?
I think that that ease of transfer is going to be a crucial point, if they go with cartridges and still want third parties to put their multiplats onto the NX.