Accessories maker Mad Catz, which develops peripherals for games like Street Fighter IV and Rock Band, saw its sales fall 16.1 percent year over year to $21.6 million in its second fiscal quarter, which ended September 30.
The company claims North America as its largest market, and in that region alone, sales declined 18 percent -- sales actually rose 55.3 percent in Canada, but were offset by a 19.6 percent decline in U.S. sales. Sales in Europe were down 14.6 percent year over year.
Companies, particularly public companies like Microsoft, need to grow.
i mean its pretty simple, they spent close to 30 billion in acquiring activision, they thought they'd make it bk no problem, and that didnt happen.
its just shit that because of MS's miscalculation alot of people lost their jobs.
They are going to use AI for a large portion of the game development process. Upper management need bonuses and the shareholders need more money. So, people will lose their jobs.
"They want you to believe the devs under them are super stoked to work generative AI into their processes," continued Gaider, "but I assure you what they took as excitement was really a veiled wail of despair not unlike the time that team was informed of their new 'really cool' live service mandate.".
I think anyone with some common sense knew this, im glad i don't support their games anymore, what a sh!t company.
I said this yesterday. AI isn't what we want when it comes to crafting artistry. Alas, these soulless corporate morons don't care about their work, only about cutting corners as much as possible.
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This ship was never meant to sail, this ship was made from the get go to sink as fast as possible. It almost feels that they want to lower the standards of quality in the industry so that they can fit in
Xbox has no soul and Phil has no confidence, and it's impossible to say either do when they killed Tango and Arkane Austin.
Everything they've said since has only made them look worse to a point that they're actually less competent than Embracer.
Whe you release something like the series S and expect it not to hurt your business model, and developers have to have parity with games. Then you know Microsoft don't care. Series s is the final nail that broke developers,
Hey Mad Katz, why not make good licensed PS3 Products while yor thinking about how much you're going to make this year? maybe you would make more money if you made controllers that actually are not gimped and stupid, like that MW2 PS3 controller. and whats up with that Home button on those controllers? put a playstation logo on it while you're on it.
Oh thats right, you guys dont want to make a good controller, so you dont even attempt to get yourselves licensed by sony since it cost money to do such a thing....