CVG writes: "Valve has labelled PS3 "the most open console" on the market - following a deal with Sony to bring both Portal 2 and features of its Steam service to the platform."
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" -
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.
It may not be the easiest to develop on but it seems there's a lot more freedom afforded to devs. Im still wondering why there was no mods or mouse n keyboard allowed on Unreal tournament. I can almost understand the omission of M+K support on the 360 as it could detract from MS's PC platform but mods??? Wtf. its one of Unreal tournaments defining features. MS seem to want more control than sony when it comes to this like whats being discussed in the article. I still think nintendo are the most anal though.
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PlayStation 3 is not only crazy awesome, it’s also got what we in the future call “openness.” which turns out to be pretty important to those handful of millions of people who enjoy free themes or mods,or well, anything that doesn’t involve paying for a gold membership. I mean, come on, who wants to spend they're money for content that should be free? What is this? XBOX LIVE? cha.cha.cha.ching.
might not be as good as this i came up with....
PlayStation move is not only crazy precise, it’s also got what we in the future call “GAMES,” which turns out to be pretty important to those handful of millions of people who enjoy playing a shooter or platformers or, well, anything that doesn’t involve miming a pre-made video. I mean, come on, who wants to pretend they're playing a game? What is this? kinectimals? eew. eew. eew. eew.
Do you think the steam service is something to do with PSN+?
When they announced UT3 for PS3/PC, there was all the talk about how the PS3 was more "open" than the 360, and that's why they had no timetable on UT3 for 360...blah, blah, blah...."
Sony fanboys ran wild with the news, proclaiming anything from the death of the 360, to Gears coming to the PS3...or even Gears 2 being PS3 exclusive. I remember it all too well.
The funny thing is....once UT3 came out, PS3 owners ignored it....and EPIC jumped back on the MS/360 bandwagon, because that's where their "bread is buttered". The EXACT SAME THING will happen with Valve...mark my words. This is simply an ill-fated affair, born out of the "beer goggles" phenomenon....and when Gabe wakes up, sobers up, and realizes what he's done....he'll come RUNNING back to MS.
Gabe has gone from schlub to guru overnight in sonys eyes lol , dam im getting kinectimals to punish beat up degrade virtual tigers they will fear my punch and kicks they wont be fed or washed toys confiscated and will name them c..t ,f..k head ,floor mat ,and tarzan .