Poli Games host, Joseph, talks about a few redditors who have found an
exploit in 2 promotions Gamestop was running over the weekend and how they
used that exploit to make a some big bucks. It spread across the internet like wild fire but, were they in the wrong for doing it?
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:
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.
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
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
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I mean, the only one that's in the wrong is whoever came up with the promotion. It isn't wrong to take advantage of the promotion because you don't like how it's done. If you don't set up proper rules, you only have yourself to blame. If they didn't want to lose out on money, then they should have restricted the kinds of games that they'd accept, or they should have placed limits on how many games you could buy.
Am in the UK so am not 100% sure what Gamestop are like but from what I hear they are simply the same as GAME over hear in the UK so they must be bad. I remember a few years ago (around 2011) GAME had a promotion on trade in 3 games and get £15 extra trade in credit. The catch was yearly football (soccer) games where not included in the promotion.
They didn't say anything about yearly WWE games or Dance games or Guitar Hero or Assassin's Creed titles. I personally went to CEX a few doors away and bought the older games for like £1 or 2 each. After I was done trading in games. I had nearly £350 worth of GAME credit. Didn't have to spend any more money on games for a while after that and even had about £100 credit left which I used to buy a Vita with in 2012.
Noting shady about it in my opinion. People are just taking advantage of an offer. I take advance of any offers I come across.
I don't see how they are wrong for using the offered promotion. GameStop made a mistake making their promotion too good and overlapping multiple promotions.
I really don't see anything wrong with this. There were some people who just found a loophole in the system. Were they hurting anyone? No. Are they stealing money? Nope. Are they breaking any laws? Not at all. If there is "someone at fault" here, it's Gamestop. They obviously have had some terrible business practices that they have to shut down between 150 to 225 store nationwide within this year ( https://www.usatoday.com/st... which shows me that there aren't many people who go there anyways.
The only thing I'm mad about is that I didn't take advantage of the offer....