Sony is boasting about the fact that only two weeks after the PlayStation Portable Slim and Lite went on sale in Japan, 500,000 units have already been sold.
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" -
INDIE Live Expo, Japan’s premiere online digital showcase series , will debut never-before-seen games & content updates across more than 100 titles on May 25th.
PSP FTW! I hope it does as good outside Japan. Time for people to realise the true potential of PSP.
Somebody, please! get more Final Fantasy games to the PSP. Square-Enix, I am obviously talking to you.
beause instead of being obessesive about good games, they are obessive about system design, minaturization...ect
Release 15 new versions of psp? the japanese will buy everyone, Make it all pretty and small? the japanese love that.
If they released an cellphone the size of the one in Zoolander the japanese would eat it up they love small tech its an obession with them, since they are stuck in tradition and wont build on ancient lands instead they will only build on established cities, and which is why space is at a maximum and a apartment costs so much and you pretty much get a closet and thats it!!
that handhelds are meant to play awesome games, not to train your damn brain
Ill maybe pick one up by christmas, i would like some realy good fps and multiplayer rpg. I can´t realy see myself play anything ellse but firstparty games on the Ds, that can get booring after awhile..