Which is like 49 in console years.
And Sony is celebrating this with a Ceramic White PS2 Launch to go with your Non BC PS3 40GB Ceramic White (Rumor).
The PS2s success of over 120 MILLION consoles sold globally are big shoes to fill for little brother PS3. I mean pretend the PS2 is Jesus Christ. Now pretend that your Jesus' little brother.
Next year the PS2 will be eligible to collect Social Security, but if you think its retiring thing again. SCEA has told Gamasutra that it will be announcing some 160 odd titles for the PS2 through the end of March 2008! Makes you think twice about saving that 100 bucks huh?
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" -
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.
kool 160 new titles to mess around with, the PS2 might even last into it's 8th year.
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we will support you even when your old and grey
turn a profit on the ps3 and it's software. I actually see this as a good thing and this brings up another question. Did Sony need to launch the ps3 as early as they did?
Alot of Japanese titles....plus the EA sports games and some Konami.....
I love my Ps2....and I can play my whole game Library on my PS3(Launch PS3)