The relationship between Valve and Nintendo concerning their portable consoles—Steam Deck and Nintendo Switch— seems to be quite synergistic.
Steam is changing its refund policy, but you probably won’t be affected
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Only scumbags? As if people don't play their games on console put in the most amount of hours and return it to GameStop and trade it in for another game. But also how many people are actually do this? And what games have been allowed to be refunded?
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.
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.
Well that's good to say because steam deck is the best handheld gaming console ever made especially now with the oled version available.
Ugh why do I get the feeling Valve are not going to target higher end systems anymore with their games. 2004's Half Life 2 while demanding, wasn't quite as heavy as say Crysis. In comparison Source 2's HL Alyx was nowhere near as demanding.
Not saying I want anything that runs like crap on good systems, just wish they pumped up the visuals a bit. It could just be because they were so late releasing stuff on the engine, it looked very pleasing in 2014 with the leaks.. I mean it still kind of does, just not as much. Hopefully Source 2 has more to give.. But it looks like they wanna target lower end stuff with focus on the Deck now.
Mario Wonder blows 99% of games out of the water! Amazing!
It's Just A Great Product From Valve.
I've had 2 Switches - although I did end up selling them both. I'll give credit where it's due, although the selection of games on the Switch wasn't for me on the whole, there can be no denying how good the hardware is. Without it the handheld PC market might not have taken off in the way that it has.