Television on your Xbox 360 by the end of the year…
More tidbits of information have slipped out of the company's keynote in Las Vegas. The big news? Expect IPTV before the year is out – and never expect to move from your sofa ever again...
"Our goal is to make entertainment more personal, more interactive and more social," Comments Robbie Bach. "IPTV on Xbox 360 and Xbox Live are powerful examples of ways we are bringing together the worlds of gaming, TV viewing and community to make it easy for people to access and discover their favorite content and share their personal experiences with the communities they are part of." Imagine a logical evolution of your current Xbox Live gaming, only now you will be able to record a football match in the background whilst pwning friends on Halo 3, or watching the latest series of 24 in one multi-episode block because you love it so much. And it's coming sooner than you think; Microsoft are hoping to get the service as part of your Xbox 360 Dashboard by Christmas this year.
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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" -
Forgive my ignorance. Do the companies such as BT offer cable style channels? Or is this a different service all together like a On-demand service? I will have to do some research of my own but the only way I see me getting this is if they offer NFL Sunday ticket Via Direct TV or somthing. Or the High Def programing exceeds what I already have via Cox cable company. which is currently only 14 channels or so
Sony's network ain't got sh!t on Live. Downloadable movies and TV shows, IP-Tv, downloadable arcade games etc... With a 120gb hard-drive coming out, I am going to record tons of IP-TV onto it.
The 360 is a awesome investment.
it's just a matter of when they launch the service. i work for premier communications( a direct tv service provider) and we are going to be firing up a couple of new sats soon which will boost the # of hd channels to over 100. right now, we have 9. hopefully it will be sooner than later.
So Questionmark, Is this gonna be the equivalent of a HD-DVR reciever for Direct TV or what? This is what it seems like but is hard to tell at this point. That would be awsome cause the only thing that stopped me from gettn Direct TV was the 650$ start up tag and thats with FREE installation!! (450$ for the HD-DVR)
I just hope the service provider is Equal to or better than Direct TV, But screw that I want the NFL, but I will settle for 50+ HD channels