Sony announced its (very strong) financial results for the third quarter of fiscal year 2024, together with the traditional update on PS5 shipments.
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The FTC has officially dropped its case against Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard.
I think they're convinced now that MS won't (and can't) withhold releases from conpeting platforms. MS on the street corner now like, "Who wants a taste?!"
I've seen videos and talk a online speculating MS long game. Some think that MS multiplat move is use to appease the FTC so they can buy more and is somehow a move that could get Sony to open up their platform. In other words them going third party and letting their games go everywhere. MS possible scheme and ulterior motives, speculated by Jeff Grubb is that putting Xbox store on PS via regulation Which would hurt PS buissness very badly because that 30% cut would be even less or not a cut at all. MS buys more because they're "playing nice" by opening up its platform to Epic store and steam which would force Apple and Sony to open up their ecosystem to other stores like MS.
If that's the case that'll mean as I said before, PS fans buying Cod on PS via MS store would give 100% maybe even 90% of the money being pocketed by MS while Sony's store front wanes when it comes to third party because guess what? MS is buying more third party and preying off the extreme ignorance of the FTC. Manipulation of the FTC and MS overtaking the PS store and customers
My thing is this. I know it's a opinion and speculation but why does Sony have to open up its store or force them to go multiplat? If they still believe in selling their freakin console then let them do it. If they want to provide the best games and the best content for its fans then let them do it!? Why because the competition is trash at selling games and consoles for 14 years now Sony has to change? MS using the ignorance of the FTC to overtake gaming as we know it?
Again it's just talk and opinion but man this seems very, very possible imo.
Seemed like a lost cause anyway. Microsoft gambled and it paid off big time. That's what you call a big boss move. Sony played a huge part in the success of that acquisition.
That's a humongous number! Imagine by the end of the year with GTA 6...
So, what I am reading from this:
- "500 million MAU" + Zenimax + ABK + "Game of the Decade" Starfield + Indiana Jones + Stalker 2 + Call of Duty in Gamepass + Flight Sim
resulted in
• -7% total revenue (USD 6.6 billion)
• -29% hardware sales
• somewhere around +2% for "content"
for the Xbox division in the most important quarter of the financial year.
Whereas the little Astro Bot, metaphorically speaking, helped the Playstation division in direct comparison to:
• +17% total revenue (~$11 billion, almost double Xbox)
• +15% hardware sales
• +37% operating income
• 75 million PS5s "shipped" (~72 million PS5s "sold through")
• once again decreased gap to aligned PS4 numbers
... in the most important quarter of the financial year.
2025 is already being forecasted to achieve even better fiscal results for Playstation.
Also, 2025 is about to offer an even better software line up overall.
I don't really see the "console business is stagnating" argument. At least not for Playstation and Nintendo.
Wow congrats! The sales numbers are really getting up there. Damn
Fairly certain Sony is going to have the marketing rights to GTA6 later this year. If they release GTA6 slim and pro bundles. It's pretty much guaranteed they will have sold 100 million by Christmas 2025.