ThisGenGaming says "There has been a growing trend in video games of late and that is the emergence of online only games. Titanfall, League of Legends, Plants vs. Zombies Garden Warfare and many others are prime examples of this trend. While video game companies should not skip single player campaigns altogether, ThisGenGaming believes if they add enough content it is still worthy of the 60 dollar price tag for a Triple A game and this is why.
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" -
INDIE Live Expo, Japan’s premiere online digital showcase series , will debut never-before-seen games & content updates across more than 100 titles on May 25th.
It's the same as paying full price for single player only games.
I rarely even pay full price for any game, let alone online only. Usually get a game for cheap when its in early access or wait for sales on the regular game or complete edition.
Oh so let me get this straight, a multi million dollar company touts digital releases as their saving grace where they save money and put the extra savings towards gamers with lower priced digital releases. Now fast forward to 2015, the games are steaming piles of crap and still selling for $60 online only and in the case of EA $69.99 Deluxe Editions.
Oh yea "bu but costs have gone up!!!111! Premium editions are for teh gamerz!!1".
Why do delusional gamers continue to think that these companies give a damn about them? They literally lie to your faces and you come back ready to lick their filthy boots. I cannot imagine the amount of pre orderes are in for BLOPS 3 and DLCFront 3
Why wouldn't it be? people pay 60$ for 10 hour single players games all the time.
If it as good as Titanfall then yeah it is ok. Titanfall redefined the fps genre.