Six years after Dreamcast, the sun is shining for Sega Sammy. How did a company in the depths of despair manage to rebuild itself? And how will it achieve the dominance it craves in the console games market?
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" -
GL compiles a list of some of the most mind-blowing video game narrative twists in recent memory, from The Last of Us to Outer Wilds
With articles like these cant you tag the games mentioned so that we can know ahead of time if there’s a spoiler to avoid?
Not clicking on your article otherwise.
You want to make money?
Put Sonic to bed, and reinvent yourselves with some new, hardcore, adult themed, games. Create more original IP's like Condemned:Criminal Origins, and make them 360 exclusive.
Sega will comeback with a vengeance but not in the console realm!
Mark my words!
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SEGA use to be such great company....I really dont know what happened.....they sis a very bad job for transform Sonic from 2D to 3D....and they never made another Street Rage.....or Golden Axe...
I don't know about the whole adult game thing but to come back sega should probably let sonic die or at least not have him be their front man.
YOUR LIVING IN THE PAST SEGA. Try to invest your company into a new image that isn't such a Saturday morning cartoon type character.
why make them 360 exclusive cyberxbot? too afraid your crappy 360 might get crushed by the mighty behemoth that is ps3? oooww go cry to your mama coz this holiday season , we re gonna see some killer titles for sony's machine and you wont be able to play them ...and no ...we dont give jacksh!t about halo 2.5 , mass effect or bioshock...we dont need pc-ish americanized games thankyou very much...we re pretty happy with what the geniuses at konami and square enix are willing to offer us