Blend Games writes:
"Microsoft and Sony have been fighting for dominance to gain a certain position during this console generation race. It's been a hard fought battle and a highly disputed one at that. However, despite the efforts by both corporate giants, they can only settle for the spot Nintendo doesn't occupy…second place. Zing!"
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" -
Gary Green said: We have a juxtaposition of 2D and 3D visuals, flashy turn-based combat, quirky anime characters with cheeky dialogue with plenty of partial nudity; Yes, this is a Compile Heart JRPG. Whilst the engine is borrowed from Hyperdimension Neptunia mk2, Mugen Souls is more of a Disgaea spin-off. It’s not a strategy RPG as such, it merely sits within Disgaea’s ever-expanding universe (Multiverse? Netherverse? Your guess is as good as mine). You won’t find cameos though, since Mugen Souls is a franchise which aims to stand on its own two feet.
In my opinion the Nintendo ads in general are better than Sony ads, but the Sony ads are getting better. The launch ones just didn't work for me though.
Sony just advertise to a completely different audience.
though i hate to say it, but a survey is hardly accurate at portraying which ads are better then others.
I think Sony needs to make their ads more commercial but I find the Nintendo ones silly nonetheless.
even back when I owned a 360, I thought they were badass. I guess some people just don't know awesome when they see it. Although I guess Nintendo's ads are somewhat cool I guess if your into Wii Products and Nintendo IP's, but I can't see how if you don't own a Wii how their ads would appeal to you.
Is very good, but Ninty have done well here in the UK, they have got some British celebs to advertise their games, no one massive, just people everyone recognizes. (Ian Wright, Harry Redknapp etc.)
Dude nintendo adds have been almost non-existent.! WTF.. they don't need to be either.. They are number 1...