Research and Markets study reveals Microsoft's use of its Xbox Live web-based service to deliver TV shows and movies directly to the TV set, bypassing the traditional route of cable system and telco video distribution, will bring in almost 100 million in 2007...
This looks like a great way to play.
Rocksmith+, the award winning music-learning app that teaches you guitar and piano with thousands of hit songs, is coming to PlayStation and Steam on June 6, and is available to wishlist now on both platforms.
"The sudden closure of several video-game studios at Microsoft Corp.’s Xbox division was the result of a widespread cost-cutting initiative that still isn’t finished.
This week, Xbox began offering voluntary severance agreements to producers, quality assurance testers and other staff at ZeniMax, which it purchased in 2020 for $7.5 billion, according to people familiar with the company’s plans. Others across the Xbox organization have been told that more cuts are on the way.
Speaking about the closures more broadly, Booty said that the company’s studios had been spread too thin — like “peanut butter on bread” — and that leaders across the division had felt understaffed. They decided to close these studios to free up resources elsewhere, he said.
Game Pass has not seen the massive growth that Xbox boss Phil Spencer may have been hoping for."
"Speaking about the closures more broadly, Booty said that the company’s studios had been spread too thin — like “peanut butter on bread” — and that leaders across the division had felt understaffed. They decided to close these studios to free up resources elsewhere, he said"
So what you're saying is...you bought all these studios and you guys can't run them.
Jesus.
Reports are suggesting that Game Pass will be getting a price hike soon and that Call of Duty may not be added to the day one offering. I honestly have a hard time believing this but it does beg the question why exactly did GP fail? I think the answer is that it just didn't get the growth that it anticipated. Jim was right but I wish he wasn't because at the end of the day, its gamers, devs and other front-line workers who have to absorb the blow for Spencer and team's miscalculations.
For all the armchair executives who were calling for Sony to release its big-budget AAA games on PS+, the same exact thing would have happened at PlayStation. Game Pass has killed Xbox. Congrats.
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I know I've been posting news that were posted in forums, but I wanted to promote the site. I mean as awesome this site is, when it comes to gaming news, it does not a forum...
The Xbox Marketplace is gonna do to movies what the Ipod did for music!!! The 360 is taking over the world!!! Bye PS3...concentrate on your ps2!
you use your MS points to buy music. Since it plays videos as well-I'm guessing that MS will soon let Zune owners be able to d/l video thru XBL and sync it to Zune to take with you.
And perhaps they'll let XBL subscribers be able to d/l music tracks to the 360???
In other words, they need to merge the Zune Marketplace with XBL Marketplace. Everything is in-place for this. We just need an update to make it so!
This should increase other hollywood studios to offer movies so they can get a peice of this action.
Great to hear it's a success. I just want more HD-Movies.
Finally, a way for fanboys to rent Little Mermaid for the third time without having to justify to the cashier why a grown man would rent that.
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