Xbox boss Robbie Bach talks up new SKU as casual gaming contender
A new $279 Arcade pack will include a wireless controller and several casual titles including Pac-Man, Uno and Luxor 2, reports next-gen.biz.
"Arcade becomes [for us] the ability to bring in a new set of audiences," said Bach."
"They're probably a little bit more casually focused, they're looking for a new family experience or they're more price focused."
This could be fun as they make great tables. Go big or go extinct. Prime your senses for a neural handshake and step into the cockpit of a Jaeger. It is on you to cancel the apocalypse when Pacific Rim Pinball comes to Pinball FX on May 16.
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" -
If Microsoft wants to take on Wii with 360 Arcade, they are going to need to drop the price to $250, just like Wii. They should consider packing in Viva Pinata and Kameo.
This is stupid. It should not be the market they are aiming for. Thats the Wii Market. MS should stick to hardcore. Its what they do best.
The games he mentioned are actually demos, not full games. It states that on the box...
"A new $279 Arcade pack will include a wireless controller and several casual titles including Pac-Man, Uno and Luxor 2, reports next-gen.biz."
The mighty proclaimed hardcore game console with demos of retro ? nice going. I can put more 120 $ and buy the new model of PS3. X360, no way
Then why does it say Demos of the games on the box as reported by Kotaku the other day? Typo?
they even showed a picture of the box stating it was demos not full games... Please don't kill the messenger. I just want to make sure its accurate.