The free-TV, rather subdued, European launch of the PlayStation 3 is done, and the sales figures for the first (and crucially important) weekend are being calculated. Speaking to SPOnG today, a Sony spokesman would not even hazard an opinion with regard to the weekend's sales figures, stating that the company is awaiting figures from Chart-Track.
Nor are any of the major retailers prepared to comment, on the record, anything but bland PR-driven statements.
Under terms of strict anonymity, however, SPOnG was told by they contact at one branch of a major retail outlet, that on both Saturday and Sunday it sold more 360s than it did PS3s. Is that a bad sign? Yes. This soon after launch it would be just about acceptable for the masses of expensive, late PS3 stocks to be moving slowly. However, for the 360 to outsell it at launch weekend should come as a shock to Sony.
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.
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" -
Gary Green said: We have a juxtaposition of 2D and 3D visuals, flashy turn-based combat, quirky anime characters with cheeky dialogue with plenty of partial nudity; Yes, this is a Compile Heart JRPG. Whilst the engine is borrowed from Hyperdimension Neptunia mk2, Mugen Souls is more of a Disgaea spin-off. It’s not a strategy RPG as such, it merely sits within Disgaea’s ever-expanding universe (Multiverse? Netherverse? Your guess is as good as mine). You won’t find cameos though, since Mugen Souls is a franchise which aims to stand on its own two feet.
You have a games console called the Xbox 360? Its superior GPU, affordability and combination of an online service that its intergrated into ALL Xbox 360 games with a unified friends list and a friends list that stays the same no matter what games you play also an online service that is GLOBAL rather than regional says it all.
Games on the 360 look and play better thanks to the better visual capabilities of the GPU along with the better pad with rumble that is the 360 - overall the 360 wins easily across the board.
For every 1 of these fud articles their is 5 "PS3 is selling Great" articles . I love how the PS3 article will be based on an entire countries point of view. And the "PS3 isnt selling" ones are based on "1 retailer branch" at most. lol...
whoever promotes these articles need to stop. And the answer is no Sony should not be worried about 1 retailer branch. I bet no one bothered to ask if they had more Xbox360's than PS3's in stock and I bet they did. lol
This is getting to be silly and ridiculous. I refuse to acknowledge these articles anymore. They are running out of steam. Now its down to 1 retailer branch. Next it will be "some kid on the street told us no one is buying PS3's...Sony should be worried"...lmao
LAME !!!!
This is just useless. All this contradictory articles, one minute you see: "PS3 is selling great!" and the other "PS3 is not selling at all!, entire shipments have been left untouched!"...let's just wait for the OFFICIAL figures.
As for the first poster, man you really are close minded huh?. I mean I don't deny the 360 is powerful and has good games (after more than 1 FULL year out, that is...) but you cannot say that the PS3 is not good machine, or that the games LOOK better on the 360 -> Oblivion, for instance, LOOKS better on the PS3.
And I'm glad you like the rumble (which is heading to the PS3, by the way)...but I think that's just the most useless feature to ever be implemented on videogames...oh well, each person has their own point of view.
Hardly a respected source for reliable news. Too early to say if the PS3 has sold out yet. There are Know doubts that PS3 is selling. I'll wait for official sales numbers before judging it.
Okey, let's not compare Oblivion then. Let's just compare multiplatform games available at both consoles: As far as I know, both consoles prove to show almost the same graphics. So either way, the games do not look "better" on the 360 either. I wanted to prove that just because the 360 has 1 game that outdoes any other on graphics (Gears of War), you cannot say the "games" look better on one console than the other. The PS3 can, and probably will; show graphics on par and even better than those of Lost Planet and Gears of War.
That was my point, as I said; I think the 360 is a good console, but I can't stand people being so close minded that they don't recognize that the PS3 is a good machine too.