PushStartSelect: "NPD numbers are released, and as many of you know this is the “official” sales numbers of every video game out there. I expected sales to be somewhat dwindle, but of course people take the numbers and create a panic by calling it failing numbers. While the numbers are indeed low, lets take a second to step back and look at the outside sources causing lower sales numbers. Before you jump to conclusions, no the Angry Birds market is not stealing the buyers…."
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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.
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" -
I wish the article was right but there are a number of sources that are showing the game industry is failing.
Don't trust the NPD numbers. For one they don't track digital sales, which are becoming more and more popular. Plus if I remember right big retail chains like WalMart don't disclose their numbers.
Also, the reason why sales are down is because we're at the end of the generation. It's a fact that sales tend to slip near the 4th or 5th year, which usually is the end of a console's life cycle, then the new generation systems come out and numbers go back up. But since this generation has gone on longer than any other, the sales seem dire, but it's natural (the weakened global economy doesn't help either). Once the Wii U and the other next gen systems come out, then sales will pick up. It's a cycle that always happens and for some reason these experts can't pick up on that but some asshole like me that spends way too much time on the internet can?
Nope, it's not. NPD doesn't paint the whole picture. Not just of things here in the States, but because of things like economic pressures and the rise of digital sales, the "official" numbers of games will be off by quite a bit on many- if not most- games.
Console sales slowing is affected by the first half- the economy- at the least, and there are definitely some who have bought all the consoles they're going to buy this generation.
People really need to stop making decisions based on partial information.