Richard Wells, the voice behind video gaming's iconic PEGI 18 rating, revealed his compensation for the task & views on AI.
The first PlayStation is home to an array of iconic video games that went on to define the sheer significance of this console.
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" -
He should have entered into a royalty agreement instead of a done deal
An age rating has a voice actor?
You gotta be kidding me. Here we go with the VO actor worship again.
He said "Pegi 18". What do you expect for all that hard work? 1mil? Royalties? Wow. Problem is this: Dreamy stary-eyed gamers with aspirations to do "something" one day and dream about being something they don't know much about i.e. entertainment / VO etc. and have some really f-ed up and bizzare expectation that they should get Kardashian level pay outs, or retire as of they had won the lottery. Doing barely anything = HUGE bucks. Yes, this would be a dream job for someone who has sat on their ass their whole and this was the first paying gig, but that is fantasy and NOT how it works.
Making it big does not mean you make big bucks. You take a lot of jobs, are in demand, and you do very well. ^Again there is a really f-ed up VO fetish / fascination that's seems to have gone lamestream. No one give's a F about the voice actors's opinion is. No one cares what their salary woes are There are places for that and the first place is their f-ing agent. Gamers, stop defending outsourced contractors particularly decades after the fact.
i mean, he aaid one line.
200 dollars is alot ha.