Pixel Gate have released their first podcast. It's still in the early stages, they cover youtubers and their impact on the industry and microtransactions:
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" -
INDIE Live Expo, Japan’s premiere online digital showcase series , will debut never-before-seen games & content updates across more than 100 titles on May 25th.
Love ClassicGameRoom, his videos are awesome.
Angry Joe used to be fun...until he decided he was the voice of TEH PEOPLEZ
Happy Console Gamer is my favorite youtube video game show. He represents my generation of gamers from the nes/sega master system, the arcade era, 16bit era, classic JRPG memories, to the ps1 and dreamcast memories. Johnny speaks with genuine enthusiasm and his buddy robman is the biggest megaman fan. They don't cover every game that existed back then. Only the ones they love and the experiences they had which I can fully relate to.
There are tons of indie games this generation that would not have gotten the attention they deserved without the help of LP'ers. Hell, there are even triple A developers who STILL send LP'ers early builds of their games just so that they can show it off and get more attention.
http://www.youtube.com/watc... So yes, there is a huge market of gamers out there who's decisions are affected by the opinions of their favorite LP'er. Even I have bought a bunch of games that I would've never considered buying due to the input of my favorite youtubers.
rxl209 is greatest gaming channel ever
theres also alot of people pretending to be gamers on youtube just to ride the gaming gravy train. these fake gamers include (but not limited to) icyrhythms, reviewtechusa, stonefoxmedia, jaytechtv, nxtgen720, etc.