Tim McDonald comes back fresh from a viewing of Addicted to Games?: Panorama with his thoughts on just how well it investigated the issues at its core.
From the article: "I just watched 'Addicted to Games?: Panorama,' as I suspect many of you did, and I'm horrified. Utterly horrified. Not at the looming, iceberg-like threat of games addiction destroying our society, but at the show itself."
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.
Eventually they’ll realize the value is with the employee not the company. Buying an IP means nothing if the people who contributed are let go. They’ll get it one day.
tech is different because they buy threats and then kill them. Twitter bought Vine and did nothing with it. Despite people seemingly liking it. Could've had tiktok a decade before bytedance. go figure.
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.
Aren't Panorama the team that stitched up the Michael Jackson interview?
What, honestly, just dismisses the show is the fact that it's the person, not the medium.
If videogames didn't exist, all these retards would be clinging up over another form of escapism, getting addicted to it, and utterly failing to recognize their own faults; instead going for the easy way out, scapegoating the media they used to entertain themselves while ignoring their responsabilities as a person.
It's just biased media, but this happens to every new form of entertainment that finds success: Movies, TV, hell, even TCGs. You know, all these were addicting, a major threat in our houses, and more evil and horrific than beings staight out of the darkest depths of our beloved Lovecraftian lore.
On a bright, sarcastic note, I can agree with the whole point of the episode: Online multiplayer isn't only killing good videogames, it's killing our humanity as a whole (dun dun DUNNN).
Agreed Neckbear lol