As the decade comes to an end, we asked the adult gamers in the Grown Gaming team for their predictions for the next decade in gaming.
These were their gaming predictions for the 2020’s. What are yours?
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" -
INDIE Live Expo, Japan’s premiere online digital showcase series , will debut never-before-seen games & content updates across more than 100 titles on May 25th.
Monetization will get worse, and those games with it will feel worse and more incomplete than ever, everything will probably be adopting the BattlePass structure, and im sure EA, Ubisoft, Activision or Bethesda will even try to add BattlePass in a SP game. We may start seeing other devs push NOT having microtransactions as a selling point.
Mid tier will continue to fill out likely bringing with it new competitors to AAA studios like EA, Ubisoft etc.
A. Battle Passes are optional, you don’t have to spend a dime on them if you don’t want to. It’s there for the ones that do.
B. No one is holding a gun to your head to buy them.
C. If you don’t like the concept of the battle pass you don’t have to buy the game either.
Fortnite has done more to push the industry forward the last 2 years than Sony has this entire generation.
Cross progression/cross platform
Universal friends list
1 store to buy any extras you want for the game and it work on any device that runs the game.
I can’t wait to see what the next gen holds for us.
A lot of ugly female characters