Nowadays, the Xbox 360 is finally beginning to fill out the (admittedly low) expectations Microsoft had for it in Japan. The company shifted its millionth console in the region last month, and hardware sales have continually expanded year-over-year since the 2005 launch. "I really feel like we're expanding now," says Sensui.
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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" -
This guy shouldn't even have a job! Mr. Bright Future has been talking that jive since 2001. That 360vsPS3 guide they released was pure cheeze and should of been the last straw with this failure along with the marketing and PR staff in Japan.
Well I do see the future brighter for them in Japan. They need to keep grabbing those JRPGs.
I could say that microsoft should just give up on the Japanese market, but instead, I commend them on persevering in a software market that is locally dominating. They won't give up, even if the odds are bad. PS3 had the same kind of problem here in the US. And yet this little engine is still chugging away. Never give up never surrender. Or you will end up like sega. The prostitute of the gaming industry. I still cry a little inside every time I see sonic dancing for food, on the corner of nintendo and suicide.
they do have a future it should only take them 8 more years to make 5 million in japan by that time ms will have killed off the 360 no let me stop they have a ok future but i don't see it being much different than the x box 1 in japan
LOL it took microsoft 4 years to sell 1 million in Japan.
talk about the biggest Fail in the history of gaming right there.