Since Microsoft made the decision to cut the Kinect from the Xbox One you may have heard reports that sales of the console have more than doubled, but this is just a clever marketing spin to paint the Xbox One in a more favorable light.
Despite the Xbox One’s price drop the PS4 outpaced it by 36% in June. Microsoft is trying its hardest to hide the fact that sales for 2014 have been so poor, that they’ve been selling from their surplus inventory and have barely had to manufacture new consoles.
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 part of its plans to cut 1,900 jobs, Microsoft has reportedly shut down operations at Bethesda France, letting go roughly 15 people
Bethesda France was made up of roughly 15 people... they couldn't of being doing much
Bethesda France mainly did publishing and marketing within the region
Bethesda France focused on publishing and marketing in the region. And 15 people lost their jobs as part of the closure.
I wonder if this is part of Microsoft's strategy to abandoned physical media or possibly gamepass advertising makes their roles redundant you don't need to market a game as hard when the majority of players get the game as part of a sub which already promoted upcoming games
Tbh Microsoft I think Bethesda being 3rd party same with Activision would probably more competitive than thus scenario imo
The recently purchased Activision French offices might take over all the licensing and marketing for Microsoft in France from now on.
Hanzla from eXputer inquires: "If Xbox can care about preserving its games and legacy, what exactly is wrong with Nintendo, trying to kill game preservation single-handedly?"
Ahh yes the good old game preservation of saving all your games to a removable hhd on the Xbox 360, taking it round your mates house, setting up multiple tvs to
Be met with “save data corrupted, please re download”
Or how about removing 360 games
From the store
, download them now or else, and, better hope to god that save data doesn’t corrupt, or it’s lost for ever
Nice one ☝️
This is just a scammy PR move to distract from the fact they are going digital only and trying to push streaming and subscriptions only.
No gaming company has pushed harder to remove ownership than Microsoft.
Without discs there is no preservation, preservation can't be done by the rights holders it can only be done by the consumers, anything else is a lie.
Nobody wants this. Sales or the lack of it in the case of XBOX is very telling. I wonder how the adorably all digital series X will fare. Adorably dismal perhaps?
Only time will tell, but for from someone like me suspecting that Xbox is trying to gracefully exit the console market, that "forward compatibility" team is trying to get Xbox games playing on Windows PCs. I mean, it's nice that they're not planning on exiting with a "enjoy your games while the hardware still works" message, so that's nice. They still have a brand to protect via Microsoft so probably feel obligated to have a better exit strategy.
I don't think the xbox brand is that important, how many franchises are popular besides Halo and Gears ?, and also MS is just killing its own brand slowly with the release of the xbone, seriously that thing isn't future proof one bit.
MS should spin it off, it can focus on being the PC kings!
Why would MS sell it when it is selling better than the PS1, PS2, PS3, and 360 given the same time on the market?
Did Sony sell off PS after lower initial sales?
The console aint going anywhere. If MS actually wanted to sell it off Nadella would be doing it now along with the closure of XES and the layoffs of Nokia staff.
The author picks out certain parts of Nadellas letter but simply fails to see the part where Nadella states his belief&commitment to xbox. XES was closed to better focus on games. The direction under ballmer&mattrick might have taken their focus off course for a while but Nadella&Phil seem to be getting it right back on track. We might actually see an expansion of xbx game studios due to aquisitions&may be mergers.
Its great to have the financial backing of a huge cooperation like MS behind the xbox. very few companies are as persistent as MS.look at their situation in Japan. Other comapnies would have given up there.The original xbox sold about 28mil consoles worlwide but that didn't stop MS from releasing the xbx 360. its barely a year into the consoles lifecycle so who is to say what can happen down the line? Its selling less than the ps4 but that doesn't mean the console is a flop. I bet we are going to see another xbox in another 4 or 5yrs&most likely MS will spend the rest of this generation correcting all the mistakes they've made and hopefully that will result in bigger investments ,bigger&better content, better services and finally a more capable next generation xbox. Its what sony did with the ps3 going into the ps4.
One thing I've learnt with with every generation is that Anything can happen. Look how Nintendos wii turned out last gen or the market share ms gained from sony&then the sudden spike in wiiu sales from last year.. Anything can happen anyone saying the xbx will flop or that MS will sell off the xbox brand is highly mistaken. MS will keep doing all it takes to pull through&hopefully they will.
No and No again. Of course PlayStation fanboys would say yes.