Walaika Haskins reports for TechNewsWorld - 11/21/07
"Holiday insanity is on the horizon, and it's a season that will cap off a big year for the video game industry. Wii is the system everyone wants but nobody can find. The PlayStation 3 is tops with tech, bottoms with game selection. The Xbox 360 may have it best -- a large stable of titles, apparently ample supply, and a new package that edges close to the Wii's price point."
TechNewsWorld reports the prospects of the three new consoles going into the holiday season.
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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" -
Im not so sure the 360 is meeting supply demands very well.
The premium 360 is sold out at almost all the Bestbuys and Circuit Cities in my area(southeast Wisconsin, Brew city)
MS better get supplies in those stores ASAP, because if folks can't get the 360s they want they will just turn to PS3s, and they are in ample supply.
horse race uh...maybe between 360 and ps3 ..cause wii is already double lapping them both.
http://www.n4g.com/up/8503/...
And the game of the year Uncharted.
and the games ystem that wont become unless in the next year like xbug 360 and wii ok the wii is already useless POS and never was taken seriously stupid gimmick LOL!!!!
ok the P3 will sell well this holiday..but I think it and the 360 will prbably ending in a tie..for overall sales.....(this holiday)..the PS3 will outsell the 360 in the long run...
im out b4 I get flamed for beign biased..!!