Both Sony and Microsoft continue to use press websites to argue over the Activision merger and attempt to control public discourse about the deal.
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.
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.
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.
Seems to me more like the press are dining out on the drama coming from the statements made to the CMA.
That includes tweaktown.com.
Put them in the ring!
Nope, they need to use even more. People need to see the lies being use by trillion dollar company to justify taking multiple franchises from everybody and put only available in one of the consoles... And the smallest market.
Wow literally almost every new artincle on n4g is about this dam war over activisio i cant wait to hear the end of the bickering from both companies and sets of fans.
Hearing about this is tiring tbh, I have all 3 consoles so I'm good whichever way this goes down.
I tend to lean towards Sony's side on this argument but if I was in Ms shoes, with the absolute beat downs Sony has given them throughput the yrs, I'd flopping my big dick on table aswell and spending whatever I needed to to get back into the game.
Can see it from both sides, not a fan of what Ms is doing buying up massive publishers, and for the record I think Sony would be fine without cod, massive loss of revenue for sure nothing that would end Sony though, far from it.
Both companies doing what they need to to get the edge or maintain there edge.
Just can't wait for it to be over so we don't need to hear the same tired arguments on a daily basis, just wish they would both shut up lol
Court cases have public filings so it’s the press using the court papers . Do your job and know how things work