Coasting to the top of media distribution, Netflix has revolutionized the movie and TV industry. Though most movie studios feel the service has a long road ahead of them, the ride to the top has brought about a change in how we experience and receive our digital entertainment.
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" -
On Amazon, you can't get an RTX 4090 for less than this one from Gigabyte, which now offers great value after an eye-catching April deal.
Streaming movies SUCK. They're fine if all you want to do is see a movie but they're pathetic when you want a home theater experience.
I didn't spend $2000 my TV to watch movies with shitty image quality.
I agree. I have a very nice setup. Tv and sound. I perfer Bluray all the way. Nothing like Linear PCM 7.1 True HD sound via HDMI. Watching in 1080P at 24htz. It's the best. Streaming is nice, but they don't have the newest movies, and the quality isn't as good. Its convienient for TV shows, but movies I'll take on Bluray.
I Redbox blurays for new releases and I Netflix for tv shows and movies I've never heard of.