Launch title Crackdown 3 has been delayed until spring 2018, leaving MS with just one major new game to support its new console.
Outriders developer People Can Fly's next game has been canceled after its publishing agreement with Take-Two Interactive fell through.
"the capital group of PCF Group S.A."
If you're getting funding from a group that needs two different ways of Acronyming itself, things will not go the way you want them to.
Outriders was crap. They slapped that game together and threw in a loot system to get players' attention. This game was absolutely jank and the always online nonsense made it stutter like crazy. People Can't Optimize.
I liked Outriders but I could see where the artistic vision was compromised. The way the industry is now, it wouldn't surprise me that upper management would scrap something that didn't pull in money via gaas, mts, or other means.
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
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
Blizzard writes: "After careful consideration over the last year, we at Blizzard have made the decision not to hold BlizzCon in 2024. This decision was not made lightly as BlizzCon remains a very special event for all of us, and we know many of you look forward to it. While we’re approaching this year differently and as we have explored different event formats in the past, rest assured that we are just as excited as ever to bring BlizzCon back in future years."
How about you not hold Blizzcon anymore period. You fucking POS company. I really hope Blizzard would just die.
That's because they have zero exclusives. I definitely prefer my xbox, but this is getting ridiculous. And no making another halo or gears doesn't count anymore.
Compromised released of 2014 announced games...
This is definitely Microsofts driest year with regards to exclusives but every console has at least one of those years, that's normal. Sony's first 2 years were pretty rough but now they are killing it! Xbox exclusives have been solid up until this year. Interested to see what new games that have in store for 2018. There are quite a bit of 3rd party games this year luckily.
It just has to be said....and you know what I'm going to say because we've been saying it over and over...
Having more money than the competition but investing less and spending less on creating studios that produce games for a system you want to sell worldwide catches up with you eventually. The competition, even in their darkest hours, kept spending money holding on to studios, creating advanced game engines and producing hit after hit until they produced one of their finest games yet in the Last of Us on PS3.
The investment continues on to this day with efforts producing games like Horizon and Uncharted 4 and their engines. Wanting to be the leading platform but not investing like this catches up. And instead of countering, listened to social media belittling their power and produced a powerful system, but not the reason why you buy a console which is GAMES. Even dropped the camera which was a fine piece of hardware but didn't put any GAMES out to show why you should have it. Only left it an expensive mic.
Look, we all know third parties make some of the best games out there and not just Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft. But when your competitor is the more popular platform, the best selling platform, and will get the same third party games as you, you have to dig deep to produce something that gets you noticed. And Microsoft is not stepping up to balance and counter Sony's efforts. It takes years to do this. Which is why Sony started early. Gamers laughed at them as third parties went multiplatform, not because they hated Sony. But to survive in an economic crisis.
A bad year is a result of years of bad planning. Now Sony is laughing because those seeds they planted years ago have now produced a forest of trees. Microsoft needs to show why they're a leading software company because we know they're capable with hits like flight simulator, crimson skies, age of empires, mech assault, etc. Producing features and back end software does nothing when the fan base want and need GAMES.
Xbox is pretty much dead to me. Switched to PS4 for Destiny 2. I turned it on for the first time in a couple months only to turn off my auto renew for Xbox live.