London, March 20: Sony Corp., the world's largest maker of video-game players, may cut the price of its PlayStation 3 consoles in global markets, a Goldman, Sachs & Co. analyst 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.
you should apply in MS PR team buddy, I think you will do a great job in my humble opinion :)
I can tell people like you are an absolute minority..
If service is up means their fans and fanboys accepted this model and subscribed to it. The near future you will see a big decline because the service is saturated.
But that's been ms for years. When things aren't going their way they try to change the way things are said. For instance console sales are down, they stop telling how many sold instead telling us how many hours spent in halo or headshots. So it makes sense console sales down just say people are playing on more devices then previous. What they won't say is how many xbox players jumped ship to ps5.
Hardware sales are so bad that Sony and Nintendo are blowing the sales off the water with their hardware.
If Xbox are losers, others aren’t..
Xbox already tried everything with Xbox live then subscriptions went down so much that they had to find something else. Their fans subscribed then reached saturation rather quickly.
Hardware and exclusive games is where it’s at! Keep gamers excited, announce decent software and people will support you
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.
Activision: "we gonna need a bigger rucksack/backpack please"
Microsoft: "why's that"
Activision: "to carry yo' weak ass'
Top brass have also wanted to start seeing returns on the 100 billion they have put into various Xbox related moves so seeing more multiplatform games is highly likely especially from abk
It's basically saying that PlayStation is the reason Xbox is afloat right now thinks to Ps5 versions of COD
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.
Eventually they’ll realize the value is with the employee not the company. Buying an IP means nothing if the people who contributed are let go. They’ll get it one day.
tech is different because they buy threats and then kill them. Twitter bought Vine and did nothing with it. Despite people seemingly liking it. Could've had tiktok a decade before bytedance. go figure.
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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$600.00(US) & $825.00(EURO) and no exclusive games. They need to do what Nintendo did with the Game Cube back in 2002.
The playstation 3 hasn't got any exclusive games? Really....
Great, excuse me while I pop off down to the shops and buy a copy of "Resistance Fall Of Man" for nintendo Wii, and "Motorstorm" for Xbox360.
I'm not trying to piss you off. But both of those games are just O.K. And yeah they are exclusive to PS3. Good thing too. You need rumble for a shooter and a race game. Could you imagine Rumble on Motorstorm over Xbox live "wow" you could actually feel the track as you race. R: FOM has nice weapons but no rumble what is up with that.
And no I have nothing to hide. I'm at work enjoying you guys making fan boys of your self. King Boy I call a seas fire on you. 1 more infraction and oh NO. ACHRIA you know whats up. Your a joke for real.
I would not mind a PS3 price drop my self.
This is like predicting it will rain somewhere on earth today, it is not a question of will there be a price cut but when. In my opinion the PS3 will keep more exclusive games after the price cut makes it affordable for the masses. The 360 is pushing its affordability at US$399, the Wii has nailed it. More gammers that own a given system = more AAA games and exclusives for that system. Don't forget the 360 is overdue for a price cut, a PS3 drop in price will be answered by one from Microsoft. No ground will be gained in the "console war" by either side, us gammers will definitely benefit though.