Kombo Writes: "The face of the gaming industry has changed a lot in the last decade; it can be said that this past decade has caused video games to grow up. They just haven't grown up in appearance, with all the new technology and the like, but they've also grown up emotionally. We've gone beyond saving princesses now, or rescuing presidents from ninjas, to saving whole continents, planets, the whole map of space and time itself!
Unfortunately, this maturing of the gaming industry has its darker side, games where large numbers of people are blown up, set on fire, and suffer numerous other fates."
This could be fun as they make great tables. Go big or go extinct. Prime your senses for a neural handshake and step into the cockpit of a Jaeger. It is on you to cancel the apocalypse when Pacific Rim Pinball comes to Pinball FX on May 16.
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" -
Great topic it's just he didn't elaborate enough. There is so much that could be said on this topic that it seems he sorta put the pen down in a hurry. It's an obvious topic that anyone who had to write a paper in college could probably turn into a 10 to 20 page double spaced masterpiece. Yet he stopped at barely a page and a half with a wopping picture in the middle.
I dunno, I would feel this is a worthwhile article if only it didn't seem that the author was just lazy. Half the dammn thing is the setup then immediately he states his one paragraph realization and an instant conclusion. I want more and i didn't get it. I give it a C--