The PlayStation 4 and Xbox One are selling well. Big games are exceeding expectations. Even the Wii U has a blockbuster. With all of that, Wall Street is feeling good about the games industry.
Major publishers like Electronic Arts, Take-Two Interactive, and Activision are all trading higher today due in large part to yesterday’s positive monthly report from industry-tracking firm The NPD Group. Gamers spent $586 million on gaming software, hardware, and accessories at U.S. retail last month, which is up a whopping 52 percent from the previous year. Releases like Ubisoft’s open-world hacking game Watch Dogs and Nintendo’s mascot racer Mario Kart 8 both sold extremely well, which shows that consumers want to spend their money on new properties and well-recognized brands. GameStop, the biggest games-specific retailer in the U.S., is also seeing a boost thanks to the NPD report.
Take-Two: "We know there have been some concerns from Borderlands fans about Take-Two’s Terms of Service. Maintaining transparency and confidence with the community here is always our goal, and we wanted to address some of these concerns."
A variety of new updates are available this month across the gaming platforms. Coming today, Retro Classics games are available to play for Xbox Game Pass members. Players who stream on the Xbox app on PC now have an additional streaming option with GeForce Now. Game Bar introduces quick settings, visual updates for Widgets in Compact Mode, and coming soon, Microsoft Edge Game Assist, an in-game browser that brings an immersive game-centric experience to Edge. And Xbox gift cards can now be redeemed for any amount via Xbox Rewards.
While i appreciate the gesture.... all of these retro classics have been made available everywhere else. I am hoping to see some other Activision properties make their way out of the shackles of the 5th, 6th and 7th gen. Licensing be damned... bring back the Transformers Cybertron games.
Love the Cybertron games! TF games have been shit lately. Would love to see that era revisited. I even did the multiplayer!
Metaphor on Gamepass just announced! O.o
Seriously, this is the best generation of Xbox ever!!!
We can´t catch a freaking break from awesome games arriving all the time!!!
It’s a HELL of a game. If you like JRPGs in the family of Persona, you will be in heaven… that is until you hear the various battle music…. then you’ll be somewhere BEYOND heaven!
EA just hosted its quarterly financial conference call, and its executives have been asked to comment about the recent price hikes for games.
Lets hope this is good news for the industry in progressing rather than money scrounging statisticians jumping on the bandwagon releasing & promoting shovelware!
It's time for the transition to next gen to step up a gear with more publishes making games just for the Ps4 and XBox1. The hardware is there, the sales are there, lets do it!
You mean, delay a game, put a ton of boring crap in it, make shitty SP campaign add some BS app support and a turd mp addition?
Man, I surely hope those aint the lessons learned here...but I suppose the other lesson learned would be delay the game, make a super hyped marketing camping, show some crazy slow-mo sh!t that never happens in-game and don't deliver the goods.
Either way, we, the consumers are fuqed. Might as well hand out Vaseline when we go pick up our copies of the game. Makes things easier.
Good. Now they can stop making PS3/360 games. Watch Dogs and Wolfenstein hardly sold any copies on last gen systems so those resources were wasted as they could have been used to make a better current gen game.
People need to realise that the 360 and ps3 aint going no where anytime soon they have years left in them yet.