Investment bank Caris has lowered it revenue estimates for Microsoft by USD 500 million based on its belief that slowing Xbox 360 sales will drag the software giant down from original projections of USD 12.8 billion to USD 12.3 billion, reports Briefing.com.
The bank believes that the slower hardware sales, while generally resilient in a tough economy, is also in part down to the aggressive price point strategy unveiled by Sony at this year's Gamescom event in Cologne last month.
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" -
Huzaifa from eXputer: "2008 was home to the likes of Call of Duty: World at War, Dead Space, GTA 4, Far Cry 2, Left 4 Dead, and many other hits, which is outright remarkable."
Just about every year in the 7th generation was great and something we most likely won't experience again.
2009 for example had Assassin's Creed 2, Batman: Arkham Asylum, Dragon Age: Origins, Uncharted 2, Halo 3: ODST, Killzone 2, Borderlands, Bayonetta, and Demon's Souls to name a few.
While the mainstream media always sees things turning in favor of the hero, here are 6 games that own being a bad guy.
Pretty much all of these games listed are based around a morality system you don't have to be bad and you don't have to be good.
It seems to have left out some real amazing games like red dead redemption 1/2,ass effect and true crime la/ny
Armored Core VI?
Ok, I'm really missing something here. Just beat chapter 3 earlier this evening, unlocked A-rank Arena fights. I'm not seeing or sensing any branching paths or morality system and I've done every side mission and arena fight available to me up to that fight.
Is something big coming soon to branch the story?
No mention of Grand Theft Auto? Saints Row (original trilogy), Manhunt? Also The Suffering (depending on the ending you get).
Is drop the price of the x360.
- Make the arcade 129.99-149.99 with a 60gb hdd and 5 xbla games standard.
- Drop the elite to 199.99-229.99 with 120gb hdd and wireless dongle and put all hdmi cables etc back into the box with a voucher for one retail game of choice.
- Drop the "Super Elite" to 299.99 with 2 controllers, vouchers for 2 games of choice, hdmi, wireless dongle and 2 years xbl included in the cost.
This will surely get x360 sales soaring. With the 199 Wii and 299 ps3, the xbox 360 seems very expensive now.
The 360 is overpriced....
they are screwing themselves this generation. giving you features you dont want or need....
oh how the mighty have fallen....
where are the games?
The 360 is doomed....
Will the 360 go the way of the Sega Dreamcast?
Should microsoft shut down the xbox and make games for the wii and ps3?
Just a few titles I've come up with as the tables seem to be turning..
those were acceptable titles for the ps3 so they should be good for the 360 too right?
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On a more serious note microsoft's exclusivity deals and marketing has hurt them bad..
for one thing the 360 was over priced as was their accesories, not that i blame them for selling their device at premium prices but microsoft doesn't play to be third or second.. anything other than first is a failure by microsoft standards.
what has cost dearly though is paying for exclusive deals and marketing.. their last financial report showed that the small devices devision showed a profit thanks entirely to the xbox 360 hardware sales..
unfortunately for microsoft they also reported that the profit turned into a loss as it was all spent on marketing and exclusive deals. it was a double edged sword.
not to mention the halo series brought in over a billion in profit, once again squandered as it all went into the 3 year warranty everyone loves so much
You know if this were about sony this would be 10 pages long and at about 5000 degrees by now on n4g LOL