Here is the full transcript of Game|Life's interview with Nintendo's senior vice president of marketing and corporate communications George Harrison. As second-in-command at Nintendo of America, Harrison was quite open and revealing about the company's plans for 2007. Lots of interesting stuff, including the future of Wii Sports, Virtual Console, and the Wii shortage, follows after the jump.
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).
Are there just too damn many "Harrison's" in the gaming industry!? C'mon guys, go the UFC route and get some cool nick names. How are these for some headlines?
Peter "Rampage" Moore blasts the competition!
Jay "Q-ball" Allard wears a hooded sweatshirt UNDER a blazer... what a rebel!
Ken "Riiiiiidge Racer" Kutaragi talks about hardware, and forgets about software-again
We could eventually get away from birth names altogether and just refer to our industry icons by their stage names.
Thank god "Cliffy B" has separated himself from all of the other Blizinskis out there
I honestly dont see the future of the wii being that great...i mean who wants more gimmicky not to mention mediocre games..i feel like this is the gamecube all over again Nintendo "This is Waiting," 8 months for somethin cool to be release and im pretty sure its a mario game every time