The Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) don't even bother playing a game before giving it a rating. Shouldn't gamers be the ones that decide how a game is rated? fellow gamers, DO tell what you think about this.
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 :)
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.
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" -
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.
It is pretty laughable that they are rating something without even experiencing it, which in my opinion shouldn't happen. But then on the flip side if they did play the game then how many people would it take to get the job done and play every game to near completion?
Another factor is the fact that ratings have very little impact in our society. The only thing it does is force the younger kids to go find an adult to buy the game for them or just ask mommy and daddy. With such little importance why should an organization be forced to produce more in-depth research about something that the majority of people don't even look at?
One way they could improve this is by publishing the review and reasons for rating on-line so everyone can read why it deserves the given rating. That still won't change the fact that nine-year-olds are playing Grand Theft Auto though.
This debate could be a huge one.
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they give the makers a paper that asked any sex ETC if they have 6 out of 10 its M or T its sad they need to play it themselfs
I already knew this too.
However, it is an interesting issue and one that needs to be tackled.
I personally think that we shouldnt have a rating system in the first place though.
They have benn doing it just fine for the last 12 years. They've added more to it and have evolved as games have. They've even added in a new rating E +10. They dont need to play a game to know what it should be rated. They can tell how bad it is just by watching gameplay.
Gamers wouldn't do the best job because we dont see whats so bad about games like GTA or Oblivion(which got moved up to a M). The best people are people that may not even play games... Moms, dads, anyone. Thats what ESRB does.
this si very old news