And why wouldn't he be happy? In a few months he'll be launching Halo 3, the biggest consumer entertainment product of the year. Elite has been successfully introduced. Xbox Live is hitting all its targets. And best of all, predictions that PlayStation 3 would have overtaken Xbox 360 by the end of 2007 have been proven hopelessly adrift. Everything is coming up Peter.
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" -
He is a hard worker and he should enjoy his winnings for now,thank's to him,our console gets the attention and focus it needs.Blu Ray,dont want it,dont need it."Home" fun for five minutes,then a desert next time you log in.
"It ain't over 'till it's over, champ !"
Yeah,sure,that's why MS has reduced his forecast to 12 millions by june because of low sale.
X360 was predicted to do a lot better. They predicted to sell 12 million by June, they've barely sold 10 million. I gotta give them credit for being partially right though... they will have SHIPPED 12 million by then. Hell, Microsoft doesn't even want to sell that many right now, they're not profiting that much and they're waiting for a cheaper (and more reliable) to manufacture Xbox 360.
My bet: No price drop till after Halo 3 comes out, but the Xbox 360 model will be a new one (65 nm Xenos, 65nm Xenon, cheaper RAM, new motherboard, smaller fan or no fan, perhaps not a HUGE power bar or none, less Xbox 360's exploding, cheaper more silent DVD player). They'll profit a lot from every Xbox 360 shifted by Halo 3. If I was Microsoft and I saw Xbox 360 demand booming and not slowing down with Wii games, PS3 games, Wii and PS3 price drops, I would wait till after the holiday season slowdown to price drop. Unless demand slowed down... but hey, that's just me...
Here won't have a good day if Microsoft don't sort out the Crackdown Halo 3 download soon.
Things are starting to get nasty over on the Bungie forums!