I'm looking at these images from a Hong Kong blog, and they totally look like The Real Thing to me. Sure they are blurry, but those applications' user interface definitely screams Apple design. The gallery shows the video/camera screen, compass, and the autofocus, among other things.
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" -
On Amazon, you can't get an RTX 4090 for less than this one from Gigabyte, which now offers great value after an eye-catching April deal.
Something looking real to you is not news. If it is a brand new leak, point to the original leak. Reported as lame.
but not to the level of Apocalyptic handheld-device able to upsurp the PSP!!!
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Xbots (who most do not even own an Iphone) disagree with such personal, firsthand knowledge!
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Well I guess Double-ignorance is what is dominant on N4G.com!!!
Only a couple weeks now and we'll get the skinny on all this. I'm sure this is legit seeing how close it is to the reveal. I'll be upgrading to this model!
with all the iphone clones around coming from asia this thing could be a clone, a protype of a new iphone that they expect to be announceced.
ehmm is that the new iPhone or only the new firmware 3.0? I think i saw somewhere that the new firmware were gonna have a compass, video/camera, etc.