NME Launches Its HD VMD Disc Solution Into Markets Worldwide for Autumn of 2007.
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" -
On Amazon, you can't get an RTX 4090 for less than this one from Gigabyte, which now offers great value after an eye-catching April deal.
Nobody will buy it because nobody heard of it. Blu-ray and HD-DVD are already out and battling. What makes you think people want another format in the war. It's just too small of a company to win (kinda like Sony and their UMDs and MDs).
Doesn't stand a chance.
Just what we need, another one.
When I've heard about this media some place besides the remote corners of the internet then I'll give it a second look.
Read what the article said,
"NME is positioning its new HD VMD format as the most practical and cost-effective solution in the HD market by giving consumers what they have been craving -- an affordable, full HD Player and DVD up-scaler with superior image playback. HD VMD also has a growing list of over 100 blockbuster Hollywood and Bollywood film titles which will come available through its network of distributors in those markets. Players and films will be available in soon to-be-announced mainstream retail outlets across each region, as well as accessible online through Amazon.com, PC Rush.com and NME's e-commerce Web store from mid October".
Now, if the HD-VMD camp is watching Blu-Ray & HD-DVD ripping their throats out and enter the market with "AFFORDABLE" 1080p DVD players (around $190 MSRP) and HD-VMD movies costing the same as DVD9?! Game over for HD-DVD & Blu-Ray. And please don't let Walmart sell this format. Like I said before, it's just business. Taking someone else's idea and making it a little better. U.S. & Japan are not the only innovators on this Earth.
Also there is one on Amazon right now,
http://www.amazon.com/NME-V...