After all the controversy of the 20% price drop in japan rumor. This article Clearifys the reason behind the allegations.
After conferring with their Japanese counterparts, US Sony reps dismissed the PS3 sale as a single chain trying to promote itself. "It looks like it is only one retailer, Don Quijote, and they are running a special for a limited time on a limited number," said the rep.
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" -
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No matter how you spin it; fact is they are doing this because the PS3 isn't selling. Why else would they run a promtion on an item if it was flying off the shelves?
"It's all about the money!!"
Again, the previous article had no merit, so I don't know if this was necessarily needed. But kudos for pulling up a response.
Now look at all the 360 zombies, they are nowhere to be found, just a couple of idiots trying to save face. This is too funny, now I see that the 360 brainless zombies are getting real desperate. It was ONE store, that was trying to outsell the other stores. Its like the gas stations on each corner, one will be 1 or 2 cents cheaper than the other, but some people still go to the other one, because it jsut happens to be on their side of the street. Thats what this store was trying to do, bring the people on the other side of the street to their store.
Anyways, once again, the 360 zombies have been destroyed and are feelig really stupid and licking their wounds. Come on back, plenty of more A$$ whoopin here.
Kinda of like how the 360 is having promotions in North America.
PS3 selling poorly no amount of twisting the truth will change it. Xbox gets it's ass kicked in Japan and it's expected you can't say the same for PS3.