When it comes to game sales, Sony remained one of the biggest customers of Activision Blizzard for years. Microsoft, however, has been trailing behind not only PlayStation, but Google and Apple as well.
Outriders developer People Can Fly's next game has been canceled after its publishing agreement with Take-Two Interactive fell through.
"the capital group of PCF Group S.A."
If you're getting funding from a group that needs two different ways of Acronyming itself, things will not go the way you want them to.
Outriders was crap. They slapped that game together and threw in a loot system to get players' attention. This game was absolutely jank and the always online nonsense made it stutter like crazy. People Can't Optimize.
I liked Outriders but I could see where the artistic vision was compromised. The way the industry is now, it wouldn't surprise me that upper management would scrap something that didn't pull in money via gaas, mts, or other means.
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.
Darth
30% physical sales: yet Phil and xbox division are in a rush go give up on that 30%. they don't have any right to give up any piece of the pie since the control such a little of the pie to begin with
also, the market is clearly speaking that the model Xbox is pushing isn't working right now the keyword being right now. you are right about freedom to play anywhere so i hope they put their games on steam
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.
@Darth
You should stop parroting metrics like an idiot without context.
"Xbox content and services revenue grew 62% in Q3 from a year earlier, “driven by 61 points of net impact” from the purchase of the third-party video game giant, Microsoft said."
61 of the 62% was from their merger so net increase is ONLY 1%
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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.
Blizzard writes: "After careful consideration over the last year, we at Blizzard have made the decision not to hold BlizzCon in 2024. This decision was not made lightly as BlizzCon remains a very special event for all of us, and we know many of you look forward to it. While we’re approaching this year differently and as we have explored different event formats in the past, rest assured that we are just as excited as ever to bring BlizzCon back in future years."
How about you not hold Blizzcon anymore period. You fucking POS company. I really hope Blizzard would just die.
Hence why their games will remain multiplat
Interesting that iOS and Android are bigger than PS and Xbox, I would've expected console Warzone to be bigger.
Either way, it sounds like MS are in for a strong, stable & varied income stream w/ their Activision purchase.
Between COD and Minecraft, they may even be the highest earning publisher on PlayStation which is funny.
That's weird what with Xbox owners buying so many games.
Two things here, it just shows how far Xbox has fallen to lose ground to PlayStation over Call of Duty (which was one of the main reasons the 360 did so well early on)
secondly, I'm tired of PlayStation relying on 3rd party for online experiences, they need to get back to 1st party, with the likes of SOCOM, Warhawk, Killzone, Resistance etc etc
There is this strange paradox that somehow Playstation thinks these games aren't popular, when they don't even exist in the market!
Let's be real. Under the guise of "protecting the console game industry from companies outside it," with no actual proof that those companies were interested in buying, that those companies wouldn't then still make multiplatform games because there's money to be made on all platforms...
Microsoft goes and buys multiplatform PUBLISHERS, that made more money on PlayStation to either, make money off of Sony's run away sales. (Because we have seen every NPD where 3rd parties made more on PlayStation.) Or, take those franchises away from Sony because they're rich enough to monopolize the industry. Same company that joined in Sony's lawsuit with Immersion to make a profit off of the lawsuit. (You never seen Sony or Nintendo join in to make money off of a Microsoft lawsuit. But you'll hear the whataboutism anyway.)
It's not like they could compete with Sony on high quality games when they were worth 1 TRILLION. They still aren't competing at equal levels being worth 2 TRILLION with no releases for 2022. Or spending a half a billion on their biggest franchise that ended up unfinished and full of mtx. Had to give away the multiplayer because the base has diminished from such low quality releases of the franchise.
Microsoft knows that they couldn't compete. So they pulled out the checkbook to cut into sales. Then, give away those games in a cheap service grooming gamers on the idea that buying games is expensive, waiting to buy if you can't afford it is so 90s, or tangible, physical ownership. You've seen the "is it on game pass?" I'll wait until it's on game pass or $10." You've seen it. You've seen how they used MLB against Sony with buyers on sinus system compared to the "It's free/not free on game pass." No "I can't wait to BUY that game. Nope. Groomed and influenced towards subscriptions. Two actually. On top of each other. Even cloud play isn't free. It's part of the service. Not free like remote play. But hey.
Yup. Microsoft. Same monopolistic company under the guise of pro consumer. Ain't nothing changed. But the fans would say it's great for the industry for one player to buy it all up.