Dean Takahashi of Mercextra.com writes, "I've been curious about the pecking order of the video game news web sites for a while. Here are the numbers on some of the bigger sites from comScore MediaMetrix, the market researcher that keeps the scorecard on web traffic."
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" -
GL compiles a list of some of the most mind-blowing video game narrative twists in recent memory, from The Last of Us to Outer Wilds
With articles like these cant you tag the games mentioned so that we can know ahead of time if there’s a spoiler to avoid?
Not clicking on your article otherwise.
Why is N4G in the Header?, whay did you expect although N4G is the best site in theory its now used as an tool with one side controlling it. Only Fanboys with goals and agenda's use this site people that would never say the the things on other sites come here. Only a few actually respect this site for what was originally going to make this the greatest site on the web.
Power of green is 100% correct. People use gang and group tactics on this site more than a Republican vs. Democratic web site and you are a part of the problem your self.
People throw around more ignorant false claims on this site that I have ever seen and this crap is getting ugly. If I did not believe that this was the best site on the web I would have left moths ago.
FAN bOYS SUCK
just ignore the comments. on the news side weird rumors get posted and we dont get much news from the xbox side now
before it was the exact opposite wish people would approve of both ps3 and 360 news
comments but still can't log into the forums? X(
the forums & posting comments. Just checking, BTW Where's N4G?