Nintendo president Saturo Iwata has defended the company's software strategy, claiming that by having strong sales for its own titles that it has created a strong hardware base - which other publishers can now exploit.
That argument counters criticism from some third parties in the past that the first party success was generating too much competition, but Iwata revealed in his GDC keynote speech that third parties had now sold over 1 million games on the Wii console alone.
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" -
While the mainstream media always sees things turning in favor of the hero, here are 6 games that own being a bad guy.
Pretty much all of these games listed are based around a morality system you don't have to be bad and you don't have to be good.
It seems to have left out some real amazing games like red dead redemption 1/2,ass effect and true crime la/ny
Armored Core VI?
Ok, I'm really missing something here. Just beat chapter 3 earlier this evening, unlocked A-rank Arena fights. I'm not seeing or sensing any branching paths or morality system and I've done every side mission and arena fight available to me up to that fight.
Is something big coming soon to branch the story?
No mention of Grand Theft Auto? Saints Row (original trilogy), Manhunt? Also The Suffering (depending on the ending you get).
Its just that Nintendo and the 3rd parties finally have time to get along.When 1st and 3rd party sales are high,success increases even more.The SNES,PS1,PS2,and the DS are all proof of that.Come on Nintendo,a new game for the sake of the gaming veterans.
Sidar nintendo is fine. It's up to developer to set up now. Seriously 32GB on an SD. I'll have to try that out with build and destroy!
I only expect nintendo to keep being nintendo and hardware provider that gives us the tools to make cool stuff. Yes they do make games but I'd rather then tend to keeping this improvement of what is available for the dev community to use.
I was hoping for 4 or 8 gig cards but damn!
It's up to the 3rd parties now. Nintendo keep bring us great platforms but few publisher believe their teams are strong enough to do what they did on the snes. That says a lot because every one loved pilot wings while I was bored out of my mind. As a gamer I say let them do what they want and if you really want some thing then you need to talk to the 3rd party publishers.
It's sort of like go karts. They where not designed for adults but it took an adult to finally make a small track let adults ride in them to make them fun. Nintendo just makes the go karts and it's up to the 3rd parties to bring the different flavors of hard to it.
In the world of hardcore gaming art is king yet HD has been a big cop out making many lazy again.
I'm glad nintendo is doing their job rather than trying to out shine the very people that will make their system great, which is the 3rd parties.
"Additionally he added that the installed base of the Wii Fit Balance Board sits at around 14 million, compared to a total console installed base for the PlayStation 3 of around 16 million. "
Oh god. I lol'd