In an interview with MCV, Microsoft's senior regional director for the Northern Europe Entertainment and Devices Division Neil Thompson has said that his company's upcoming Q4 software offering is the best he has ever worked with.
"You never really know what's going to happen in Q4, but I've worked on Xbox since we started the project and this is probably the best Christmas line-up we've ever had from a content perspective," he stated.
"There's a whole range of product coming – the brightest thing for us this year is the breadth of range and the extension of some of our more family-based products." Thompson went on the state that he believes Xbox 360 has been the "innovative force in terms of what a next generation console should look like".
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.
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" -
MS is gonna pull further ahead this Xmas. A lot further ahead.
Or I'll eat my shoe.
<ed.> Yea all consoles will sell. But 360 is going to do a lot better than Ps3 this Xmas, IMO. I could be totally wrong. But it's just my opinion.
Yep. 360 will sell like boobs and beer.
This christmas season will be big for all consoles but 360 might have the biggest sales in the end. We shall see.
Thompson went on the state that he believes Xbox 360 has been the “innovative force in terms of what a next generation console should look like”.
LOL! now that cracked me up! 360 and next gen? wow... talk about blind faith. i am guessing he hasn't heard about PS3 or Wii. q:
"It is important for us to still offer loyal Xbox customers exactly what they want – so it is important that Halo 3 has just arrived and GTA is coming."
Did he not get the memo that GTA has been delayed out of the christmas schedule?
our best line up ever for the xmas!!
but what do they have other than mass effect???
and halo 3 is not for xmas its for summer and Autumn not for xmas!
ps3 UT3,HAZE ratchet,uncharted,folklore,TG5 prologue!
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@fredy
halo 3 is an AAA title and the same goes for Bioshock but they are summers hits not xmas!! that was what i wanted to say!! read my comment properly before posting!!