Videogamer writes:
"With this Christmas looking like one of the busiest and most important in years, we spoke with Chris Lewis, Regional Vice President, Xbox EMEA, about the current state of Xbox in the UK. Read on for his thoughts on the PS3 price cut, Bungie and the game he's most excited about this Christmas."
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
@shin
Well keep it simple Sony 's operating income is down 26% and Microsoft's is up 32%. No MS spin there, just facts. 😉
Cheers
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" -
o well i guess he prolly has a PS3 at his home btw...
the 300 diverse game...diverse in a way....
PGR4>HALO3>MASS EFFECT>BIOSHOCK>PGR4> HALO3>MASS EFFECT>BIOSHOCK>PGR4> HALO3>MASS EFFECT>BIOSHOCK>PGR4> HALO3>MASS EFFECT>BIOSHOCK>PGR4> HALO3>MASS EFFECT>BIOSHOCK>PGR4> HALO3>MASS EFFECT>BIOSHOCK>PGR4> HALO3>MASS EFFECT>BIOSHOCK>....opps 50% of the great titles are FPS..what a great diverse library
Bring back Alan, at least he was funny. This guy sounds like he's reading off a P.R. sheet. Sooo boring.
Now, although the 360 does have a fair share of FPS's i would say it's libary is as mixed as the PS3's..probably even more so at this stage. It's just that the big sellers seem to be mainly FPS's.
Lol he did not answer on ONE single question!
Example:
Journalist:"What do you think about PS3?"
DUDE:"360 is incredible system!bye it!"
Journalist:"What do you think of PS3 exclusives in Q4?"
DUDE:"360 has an amazing line up with Halo 3, PGR4, Mass Effect..."
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Totally ignoring what he was asked
"VideoGamer.com: And finally... what game are you most excited by that's coming out this Christmas and why?
CL: I am probably most excited about Scene It?"
Looks like MS is abandoning the hardcore gamer, and catering to the casual market just like the Wii. Mass Effect? No way! BUY SCENE IT!
/joke
This guy sounds like a droid. I hate the Xbox and will never ever by one again. I swear to god. Such crap. I hope they enjoy their little bit of legroom because they won't be in 1st much longer. I KNOW the 360 will end up in 3rd.