Next Generation takes a stroll around TGS and reports back from all the major booths. Your company-by-company updates are inside…
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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
@shin
Well keep it simple Sony 's operating income is down 26% and Microsoft's is up 32%. No MS spin there, just facts. 😉
Cheers
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
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.
Eventually they’ll realize the value is with the employee not the company. Buying an IP means nothing if the people who contributed are let go. They’ll get it one day.
tech is different because they buy threats and then kill them. Twitter bought Vine and did nothing with it. Despite people seemingly liking it. Could've had tiktok a decade before bytedance. go figure.
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" -
In Japan, where Xbox 360’s progress has thus far seemed insoluably bleak, the system will see something of a relaunch alongside the Wii and PS3. And the 360 is the only system with Hironobu Sakaguchi's new games, and oh Lord are they impressive. (See hyperbole from Tim Rogers elsewhere on this site.)
Not only are they impressive; they're comprehensive both in scope (Blue Dragon for the conservative Square fans and kids; Lost Odyssey for more modern and progressive fans) and in presentation. These games form kind of a bullet-proof shield of respectability around the system, illustrating just what a talented Japanese developer can do with the system if it feels like bothering.
It's all clicking together! And people here are interested; the crowd to play the Mistwalker stuff is, from my measurements, far larger than the line at Sony's booth to check out its launch lineup. Of course, uh, Sony's lineup isn't all that inspiring to start with. Still, there you go. Japanese people seem to notice this! Or at least the Japanese people who go to TGS.
Lost Planet -- by huge sweeping measures one of the most enjoyable games on the 360 and a sleeper hit in the making.
Curiously, although the demo is freely available over Xbox Live, there's an enormous line to play it here. The realization hits, of course: nobody has a 360. Yet the games are drawing interest! First Dead Rising, now Lost Planet -- and just wait until the Mistwalker games hit. This is fascinating.
Just about 2/3rd of ALL gamers either don't want the ps3 or can't afford it. Thats exactly what I suspected from people in my town. Most people either don't want it or can't afford it. Leaving 60 percent of gamers looking MS's way for their next gen needs. Thanks Microsoft...
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A little off topic, but I just got finished watching the IGN TGS podcast and I had a question. We all know that IGN has a pretty serious PS3 bias, and I know think I understand why after listening to the podcasts and watching the show. One of the guys, the blonde one, is _very_ pro PS3, spouting love for Sony even after the awful press conference and saying that MS got "destroyed" at this years TGS. Unfortunately, he appears to have the dominant personality, so much so that all the other IGN staffers refuse to push him and just concede his points. From what I can tell from the podcasts, most of the staff seems pretty moderate (as they should be) but the blonde guy influences everyone with some extreme Sony bias and his ability to "scare" the other staff.
Anyone know who this guy is and what his background is?
keep dreaming.
Just to clarify. Sony contracted Gamespy for the PS3's basic services. Gamespy and IGN are the same company. Therefore Sony pays IGN. Hence the IGN bias towards Sony.