Games.net Reports:
The speculation mounts as E3 nears. Even though the event is a mere shadow of its former self, we game enthusiasts still manage to conjure up surprisingly high expectations. Here are our top ten wishes for the upcoming E3. While they may be outlandish, we made sure to keep them somewhere in the realm of possibility.
This could be fun as they make great tables. Go big or go extinct. Prime your senses for a neural handshake and step into the cockpit of a Jaeger. It is on you to cancel the apocalypse when Pacific Rim Pinball comes to Pinball FX on May 16.
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:
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.
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
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
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.
Eventually they’ll realize the value is with the employee not the company. Buying an IP means nothing if the people who contributed are let go. They’ll get it one day.
tech is different because they buy threats and then kill them. Twitter bought Vine and did nothing with it. Despite people seemingly liking it. Could've had tiktok a decade before bytedance. go figure.
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" -
Personally I would like to see KILLZONE playable and be better than expected, but it probably would be over shadowed if EPIC even just showed a good video of GEARS 2. No one would expect to see it at E3. Also if Metel Gear 4 is Playable I would $hit myself.
I really can't wait for E3. Anyone else watching E3 07 Live on G4tv?
Thank God, I'm tired of seeing that.
Shockwaves were sent throughout the gaming industry when Sony announced the new pricing for the Playstation 3 console.
The often marketed approach "that multi-platform is the way forward" has given some gamers the false impression that unless a PS2 franchise appears on the Xbox 360 that it is NOT going to reach critical mass and thus increase sales and profits for the developer and publisher.
However, multiple Xbox360 games appear to be EXCLUSIVE to that console while the same developers tout their "multi-platform" marketing scheme.
As a business person it makes you wonder what dollars and deals are being done in he backroom to poach money generating PS2 franchises to the XBox camp (GTA IV - $50 Million).
GUESS HOW MUCH WAS SPENT on Devil MAY CRY 4 for XBOX 360?
So far, no Xbox360 best sellers will appear in the PS3 arena by these same developers. Do you smell cynicism?
360 games ported to the PS3 is nothing more than "a money making scheme" that so far has produced nothing sort of mediocrity in terms on sales. In the coming months there will be many changes in management at some of these outfits. Some will not survive.
Marketing has proven that many consumers will react to the "bandwagon approach." How long will that last is only a matter of time.
That was until the PS3 $299.99 retail price.
With the PS3 at $299.99 Sony effectively demolished the competition before they even had time to react.
Gamers around the world were sent into a frenzy as retailers everywhere had to respond to the feverish demand for the PS3 even greater than at launch.
Resistance and Motorstorm franchises both 1st party titles utilizing the supercomputer Cell and BluRay effectively showcased to new owners the beginning of years of entertainment value for their initial investment.
The Wii at $249.99 no longer was a bargain that it once was. Sales came to a screeching halt as buyers rejoiced in Sony's bold move to make their favorite console affordable to the masses. Lowering the Wii price too close to the DS Lite made no difference!
The Xbox360 demise was even more breathtaking. With the PS3 undercutting the Core, Premium and Elite models which has no high definition DVD standard, buyers ignored the 360 enmass.
Even if MS tried to discontinue the Core and Premium, the Elite HD DVD add-on is $199.99 plus the price of the Elite was more expensive than the PS3.
HD DVD suffered tremendously since no one cared to much about the 360. (Blockbuster announcement)
Additionly HD DVD movie players faltered as well since the PS3 had a built-in next generation DVD player standard and buyers where stunned onced they experienced their first BluRay movie on the PS3.
The one title that push the PS3 seemingly into every home was LittleBigPlanet.
Once the title was released the developers were smart enough to create Plush Toys for children and collectibles for adults.
They spun off LBP into a kids learning software title for the PS3 that taught the alphabet, spelling and math.
The cute characters became the next Elmo and Barney phenomenon!
Sony PS3 captured the imagination of music players, karoke singers, next-gen gamers, researchers aka Folding at Home, community fans with Home, avid movie buffs and children with LittleBigPlanet bringing families a true family entertainment experience.
With Blu-Ray players seeing a 50% drop from $999.99 to 499.99 the same goes for the PS3.
$299.99 was the SWEET SPOT for the console. Sony will leave the price at $299.99 until 2010.
Stroke of genius!
I would jump all over a redesigned psp! I've been waiting for a reason to get one.