'Xbox 720' could be the hottest gift for Christmas 2011
Powering up the Xbox: what's in store for the next-gen console?
Will Microsoft launch its next-gen Xbox in 2011? There have been a couple of articles recently that have speculated on just that.
TechRadar looks at whether the 'Xbox 720' will feature a return to Intel chips, the inclusion of a Blu-ray drive, and more storage than you can ever fill.
A PlayStation 4 and potential 'Xbox 720' could arrive as early as 2011, estimates Crytek president and CEO Cevat Yerli. Industry analyst Colin Sebastian agrees, suggesting that "the general consensus amongst industry professionals is that a new generation of home consoles will arrive on the market in 2011 or 2012."
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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.
you should apply in MS PR team buddy, I think you will do a great job in my humble opinion :)
MS: "Xbox services and content without AB up 1%, with AB up 62%. Hardware down 31%. In total a loss of 350 mill."
darthv72: "Seems about right."
MS: "Excuse m ..."
darthv72: "I don't hardly play on my consoles directly."
MS:
What he said was facts. How he plays games is no concern of you. Don't get too mad about it.
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.
to you it may seem like the minority... but your bubble is shrinking because more and more are following suit. convenience is a hell of a drug and its also why physical sales only amount to 30% of overall game sales. times are changing, you either get with them or you get left behind.
But that's been ms for years. When things aren't going their way they try to change the way things are said. For instance console sales are down, they stop telling how many sold instead telling us how many hours spent in halo or headshots. So it makes sense console sales down just say people are playing on more devices then previous. What they won't say is how many xbox players jumped ship to ps5.
Hardware sales are so bad that Sony and Nintendo are blowing the sales off the water with their hardware.
If Xbox are losers, others aren’t..
Xbox already tried everything with Xbox live then subscriptions went down so much that they had to find something else. Their fans subscribed then reached saturation rather quickly.
Hardware and exclusive games is where it’s at! Keep gamers excited, announce decent software and people will support you
@shin
Well keep it simple Sony 's operating income is down 26% and Microsoft's is up 32%. No MS spin there, just facts. 😉
Cheers
MS is after diminishing consoles as a medium. They want to destroy this market because they couldnt win. MS’s vision is to dissolve console gaming.
Odd that a company that touts you dont need the hardware to play is already touting another console in the works.
They are not reliant on the HW but still want to maintain a presence (no matter how small) is a good thing. It shows commitment to the craft. It reminds me of SNK and how they made games for their own hardware (Neo Geo) while also making them for others because they knew there was a market to do so. They knew they would sell more to others but also sell to their own niche fan base.
Perfectly reasonable post down voted by insecure corporation friendly folk.... But not gamers. Real gamer want accessibility and ease of acquisition for all.... Company shills are the only ones still telling us that hardware locking people from games is good for us.
In the last two years they've started exiting the consumer market altogether. All of the newest Surface products are business models only. They can't seem to work out what they want to do with it.
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
The only growth MS will get out of the console industry is if it supports it's rivals platforms. Xbox is a pointless machine now. I can see them on a big push for live next, and they won't give up on trying to buy Steam.
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" -
It will come out a year or so before the PS4
It will RRoD on every Sucka that Buys it !!!
The PS3 will kick its Ass Never mind The PS4
And with in 2 years it will be just like the 360 an outdated pile of Garbage
And Just like the 360 is having its outdated Ass Kicked into Last Gen
The PS4 will show the 720 what Next Gen is all about AGAIN !!!!!
A year or so Head Start will not help the 720 stop the Juggernaut that will be the PS4
And the Good thing is if it was the PS4 that had a year or so Head Start
The 720 would not see it's Ass for Dusts
It wont be Capable of Catching and Surpassing like the PS3 has Done with the 360
Poor BoTs
Doomed to a Life of Mediocrity
Never mind
You got Great games like
Too Humongous
Smears 2
Alan Sleep
and Banjo KaBlowie
As i just Said
Doomed to a Life of Mediocrity
Edit
Hey lair
The truth hurt's dont it
Not as much as your Xbox Blowing up on you Knuckle Dragging Ass
But it Hurt's
Sony will not release ps4 until 2012 at least. 720 will be competing with ps3 then ps4 will release with newer tech again and rerinse and repeat.
im not buying either console on release day unless there are some good games available.
2012 for a new console for me is too soon..
the ps2 is still pushing strong...
the xbox could probably still put out some hits if it were still active...
with that said
imagine how much longer the ps3 could last.....
if you leave it up to microsoft they would release a new xbox every year
The next question isn't necessarily 'what will the next Xbox look like?' but 'will there even be one?'
this quote applies to sony as well. i'm really pleased with the ps3. i can always upgrade my HDD. and, as devs get more familiar with the system - any development issues should be much less of a problem. also, the hi-def movie playback is a useful feature as well.
with the 360, the 2 biggest issues are dvd9 and rrod. if ms could make the current hardware more reliable and do something about the limitations of dvd9....then their hardware could be pretty solid for quite a while.
i seem to be in the minority; but, i think the ps3 (in its current state)could be around for a lot longer than 5-6 years.