Sony announced its (very strong) financial results for the third quarter of fiscal year 2024, together with the traditional update on PS5 shipments.
HoYoverse has announced the development of a new Honkai game, which looks to feature Pokémon-like creature battles.
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I mean… it was pretty underwhelming. They basically slapped on that overused “neon remaster” aesthetic that a bunch of older revivals have leaned on, cranked up the speed a bit, and called it a day. No real innovation, no fresh ideas, just a faster, flashier version of something we’ve already seen.
Cultured Vultures: You love the SNES, we love the SNES, so let’s look at the best SNES games ever together.
UN Squadron, Stunt Race FX, Top Gear 2, Nigel Mansell F1, Rock 'n' Roll Racing, Adam's Family, Super Probotector. Top 3 for me, Mario Kart, Legend of the Mystical Ninja and Mario World. It kills me that the Mega Drive and Super Nintendo generation has gone. Going from a Commodore 64 to a Mega Drive and Super Nintendo, the much higher costs of games, I couldn't play them all.
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.