Jack Tretton, chief executive of Sony Computer Entertainment America has told Reuters that Sony is working to resolve PS3 shortages by May and that the company is on track to have shipped 2 million PS3 consoles to North America by the end of March. "April or May is when we feel like we're going to catch up to demand and have product fully in stock across North America and stay there," Tretton said.
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" -
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Why does he talk shortages when there are a team of guys that proved that many stores have plenty of PS3's in stock? This is the guy who said he'd pay out $1200 for a PS3 right?
Cause it's obvious someone at Sony needs their spark plugs looked at.
there are shortages in parts of middle america that we don't know about. In california it's not that hard to find one. you can just go about anywhere in a major or semi-major city and buy one off the shelf or pallet as they have them stacked on the Frys eletronic dept. floor.
Traditionally companies ramp up production to meed demand, but Sony seems hell-bent on decreasing the already anemic demand for PS3 (See BC & BDP-S300). Looks like they hope to stop selling the PS3 altogether by May.
In Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama, I have seen a lot of PS3's on the shelves, pretty much everywhere I go on my route. Not so with the Wiis; zero wiis.