A post in a gaming forum contained the following note:
New conference call directive:
We are to repeat these EXACT statements to customers that ask:
"The Playstation 3 is a great system."
"The Playstation 3 really doesn't cost that much when you think about it."
"The Wii may be a good system, but it lacks the many benefits of the PS3."
Durr, guys, if that didn't work for SONY's marketing the thing why would it work for us?
Also the reason for bad PS3 sales from Gamestop:
"It seems some of our employees are injecting a little too much of their own opinion into what items they recommend to our customers. It is true that the Wii is a very good system but this does not mean one should suggest a person purchase it instead of the PS3."
Arstechnica.com investigates
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
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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employees in the good 'ol USA are so freakin' anti-SNE maybe this is like sensitivity training for them. It's The Main Reason why I stopped going to these little shop of horrors and shop BBuy exclusively for games, periphs and kick ass displays that actually work. I was tired of the all out hatred and lies. At first I thought it was isolated, but I'd go from Texas to Missouri, and even Florida and here the same tired, dumb ass comments. These stores need to educate their emplyee base, instead of giving them the benefit of the doubt, 'cause in the long run these morons are hurting their company's bottom line. But what do I care? =] Not that the people at BBuy are geniuses or anything, but I don't have to over hear a conversation from some jerk telling a soccer mom that the PS3 has no online capability, Always freezes up, and doesn't support any of the older titles (actual conversation). Fuchk Gamestop and EB. Period.
"Is Gamestop telling their employees to push the PS3?"
Yes they are, in fact their doing a lot worse than that. I was leaving gamestop and one of the guys threw a PS3 at me saying, "please take it, somebody's got to."
Doesn't seem to match what's said in the article
But i guess, as long as it's bad for sony, a one guy experience in one random shop is more credible than another guy's with 10 shops, right ?
Sony must be throwing their weight around and threatening to revoke Gamestop's "favored retailer" status if they don't start pushing PS3 hard, but who in their right mind is going to believe for one minute that the Gamestop employee actually believes PS3 is the better value with only a handful of games and a high price?? Anyone with an ounce of sense is going to go Wii60 before they get a PS3.
they are not told by anybody to like xbox or playstation. they are individual people that like what they like. in some cases they are just kiss asses trying to tell people what they think they want to hear to try and get #s. every employee is not like i was. if i hadn't played a particular game, i told the customer that, and would provide them with feedback i'd heard from people who did play it. when someone would ask me if the ps3 or 360 was better, i would tell them it depended on which exclusive titles you liked. it was going to depend on your preference. the only other difference is extra services and which appeal to you. the problem is, the upper level people want everyone to get reserves and sell game informer so they can get good bonuses. half of the employees just bs to try and get #s to keep their job.