VGArabia: There have been a lot of rumors about how Microsoft would market its upcoming game changing peripheral (project Natal) when it will launch next year. Some people are saying that it will launch with a very responsible price with a collection of fourteen games, and a couple of these games being developed by Rare.
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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" -
keep dreaming BOTS LOL.
this thing finally comes out, we will have had the PS3 sphere controllers for at least a few months, so MS is going to have to bring it out with a low price point in order to compete. They better hope Natal works as well as they were pretending it did at E3.
I think Sony will make something about this if that happens with Magic wand.
Everything could happen.
Natal is the future as soon as u non believers accept that the better u will feel. When Natal launches the ground beneath your feet will tremble. The word Natal would be spoken around 4 corners of the world it will be broadcasted on national news and on and on and on but trust me Natal will be the end of ps3 as we know it u can make joke's about it but at the end u know it's gonna happen.