An email between Epic CEO Tim Sweeney and Xbox head Phil Spencer, made public today as part of the ongoing Epic versus Apple trial, shows Sweeney trying to entice Spencer to take “free-to-play” multiplayer out from behind the Xbox Live paywall to coincide with Epic’s war against the App Store.
Outriders developer People Can Fly's next game has been canceled after its publishing agreement with Take-Two Interactive fell through.
"the capital group of PCF Group S.A."
If you're getting funding from a group that needs two different ways of Acronyming itself, things will not go the way you want them to.
Outriders was crap. They slapped that game together and threw in a loot system to get players' attention. This game was absolutely jank and the always online nonsense made it stutter like crazy. People Can't Optimize.
I liked Outriders but I could see where the artistic vision was compromised. The way the industry is now, it wouldn't surprise me that upper management would scrap something that didn't pull in money via gaas, mts, or other means.
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.
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
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.
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.
Blizzard writes: "After careful consideration over the last year, we at Blizzard have made the decision not to hold BlizzCon in 2024. This decision was not made lightly as BlizzCon remains a very special event for all of us, and we know many of you look forward to it. While we’re approaching this year differently and as we have explored different event formats in the past, rest assured that we are just as excited as ever to bring BlizzCon back in future years."
How about you not hold Blizzcon anymore period. You fucking POS company. I really hope Blizzard would just die.
That'll be a god move Xbox do it you bakas lol
Epic is not a benevolent Knight campaigning for consumer friendly change. Epic just wants to further self-enfranchise itself by sustaining or growing Fortnite. Fortnite literally targets children as a demographic, despite Its dependence on MT based revenue.
Apple is more Evil than Epic, so Il be siding with Epic
I hope epic gets nuked into oblivion with this court case. Revealed so much and honestly you’re a gullible simp if you bought the “for the player” arguement epic laid on the table as they weaponized their player base against these companies
You guys have to understand that Fortnite literally turned Epic insane. Goes to show how insane some people will get with a little perceived “power”. Fortnite unexpectedly turned into a hit. A mega hit at that. They are already making money hand over fist and they get deals/collaborations coming from left and right. Instead of continuing this way they decided they could get even MORE money by cutting hardware providers out the loop.
Purchases on any phone, console, store like steam and origin, all get a cut from it. Epic cut out steam and the like with the epic store. Now players are playing fortnite for free AND they get all the revenue from the game if they can convince people to use their store instead. Little promotions on their store helped make that more of a reality.
Because Android/google is more of a PC way of doing things it was no resistance given. Do what you want. Epic got the game going straight through EPICS store and cut google out completely. Googles hope is “well fortnite is a huge hit so we can sell more products because people need something to play it on.” Bad decision in my opinion.
Apple is more like a console approach. So you want your game to use your store and cut us out completely? Your game is already on our platform, working fine, and our deal is inked, but now you’re saying you want to have the game link to your store so I can hope on hardware sales because your game is so “popular”? Apple rightfully so turned them down. The IPhone is popular as hell and so are androids.They don’t need help selling them. Sweeney found out the hard way that when you coming for the ones at the top, they aren’t so impressed by your game that they will let you screw THEM over. Or did he??
He tried it with Microsoft and Nintendo. No matter how you feel about it Microsoft’s console sales and Nintendo’s infrastructure is nothing compared to PlayStation. They would be easier to convince with letting people play on their system free, only getting money if someone buys from their store. Example is 50k made a purchase on Xbox this month but they have 500k players this month. All that money from purchases went to someone else BUT they are playing on your infrastructure that epic CANNOT provide. So they reaping all the benefits. You’re just housing.
They tried it with Sony and it’s hard trying to bully or persuade #1 into taking potentially nothing. They need ZERO help selling PlayStations and more players play on PlayStation than any other platform apparently so why would Sony (which is crazy Microsoft went for it) Allow a company with ONE mega hit and no infrastructure reduce the PlayStations income and be relegated to potentially being just housing? Nope. If we have a lot of players living here but spending elsewhere we want some of that as a “housing fee” basically. Sony never cared about cross platform play. Games have been online cross platform since PS2. The ONLY problem is there’s money involved now. Epic is hoping more people buy in places that they get ALL the money and the consoles and Steam/ whatever is simply where they play.
Sorry so long but I think this is all so obvious it’s crazy.