The Guardian's technology editor Charles Arthur compares the sales figures of the "300" home video in the UK. He is unconvinced that HD DVD's 70-percent share of the standalone player market matters; and he describes the sales of the PS3 (Blu-ray player) as slow, and there still aren't any compelling games to move the game console. He writes that there's no reason to think that either format will get any traction by this Christmas.
Arthur also reports he is seeing indications that this game is getting dirty, with a fair bit of "black propaganda" around...
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.
you should apply in MS PR team buddy, I think you will do a great job in my humble opinion :)
MS: "Xbox services and content without AB up 1%, with AB up 62%. Hardware down 31%. In total a loss of 350 mill."
darthv72: "Seems about right."
MS: "Excuse m ..."
darthv72: "I don't hardly play on my consoles directly."
MS:
I can tell people like you are an absolute minority..
If service is up means their fans and fanboys accepted this model and subscribed to it. The near future you will see a big decline because the service is saturated.
But that's been ms for years. When things aren't going their way they try to change the way things are said. For instance console sales are down, they stop telling how many sold instead telling us how many hours spent in halo or headshots. So it makes sense console sales down just say people are playing on more devices then previous. What they won't say is how many xbox players jumped ship to ps5.
Hardware sales are so bad that Sony and Nintendo are blowing the sales off the water with their hardware.
If Xbox are losers, others aren’t..
Xbox already tried everything with Xbox live then subscriptions went down so much that they had to find something else. Their fans subscribed then reached saturation rather quickly.
Hardware and exclusive games is where it’s at! Keep gamers excited, announce decent software and people will support you
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.
Activision: "we gonna need a bigger rucksack/backpack please"
Microsoft: "why's that"
Activision: "to carry yo' weak ass'
Top brass have also wanted to start seeing returns on the 100 billion they have put into various Xbox related moves so seeing more multiplatform games is highly likely especially from abk
It's basically saying that PlayStation is the reason Xbox is afloat right now thinks to Ps5 versions of COD
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" -
Gary Green said: We have a juxtaposition of 2D and 3D visuals, flashy turn-based combat, quirky anime characters with cheeky dialogue with plenty of partial nudity; Yes, this is a Compile Heart JRPG. Whilst the engine is borrowed from Hyperdimension Neptunia mk2, Mugen Souls is more of a Disgaea spin-off. It’s not a strategy RPG as such, it merely sits within Disgaea’s ever-expanding universe (Multiverse? Netherverse? Your guess is as good as mine). You won’t find cameos though, since Mugen Souls is a franchise which aims to stand on its own two feet.
Firsy, if you think PS3 have sold so slow, just please say-me how much X360 MS sells on last 10 months? Made it right, if you use MS numbers, then use also Sony numbers. If you use NPD, use also GfK and the japanese measure (I forgot the name, my bad).
I'll already will say you that MS says that they was about 8m back on November, now 12.6m... Sony says 5 or 6m by now... Those "oficial" numbers (NPS + GfK + Japan) also will show you who selled slow the last 11 months... So don't embarass yourself, the so called slow PS3, have selled more than 360 in last 11 months worldwide.
But, in fact, they pretty much sold the same, so both are slow? And good to remember GfK only goes for UK and German, and most of EU countries are PS3's turf...
And if BD are so slow, just explain me how 300 sold more on BD format, like almost every other movie in both formats...
well yeah the ps3 has only sold a small amount less of what the 360 has sold in each console's ..lifespan i guess.
while the 360 has almost reached it's peak with halo3, the ps3 is still in this marathon rather than race to become the number one console by 2009.
What do you guys think will happen with the enw ps3 price drops, when people realize that they're geting a blu ray player with a system for 400 dollars? when they find out that soon they'll be able to play mgs4,killzone 2,ff13,etc.
that's when the ps3 will reach the point the 360 reached with gears of war 2.
then god of war 3 and other great titles will act as the ps3's halo3 which will make it reach it's potential.
I'm just saying that these kinda people should read about the turtle and the hare.
watz up with the picture playstation vs hd dvd.laystation is not a cd format and hd dvd is not a console.
Probably the dumbest stat that is being thrown around these days. The stat that HD fans keep throwing around with the standalone player. PS3 is a blu-ray player. I wish these execs would shut the F up. Right now im like those xbox fanboys who were melting in anger when the Sony execs wouldn't be quiet. Those Sony execs did not matter much to me, but execs who keep throwing this stat up is pissing me off because the PS3 plays blu-ray.
Let me re iterate my opinion, the world not so long ago, binned billions of pounds/dollars of VHS videos due to the invasion of dvd, now again the world has spent even more billions upon billions of pounds/dollars in replacing their old collection that they just binned, do you realy think that the world is prepared to do it once again? both blue ray and/or hd dvd will have to wait another 10 years before people will take them on board and by that time we will have quadruple laired hd micro dvds or something stupid