The Blu-Ray has now been dismissed by Universal Studios, Craig Kornblau explains why the HD-DVD will win the next-gen DVD war.
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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" -
Great story! When will sony learn?
Dismissed before its even had a chance to start! thats gotta hurt!
Wow...that's a big win for HD-DVD, espescially Universal Studios, their one of the biggest, this looks bad for the Blu-ray and most certainly won't help people want to buy a PS3 or Blu-ray player considering now that a huge chunk of movies are only for HD-DVD, obviously HD-DVD still has a way to go because Blu-ray still has more backers, but this announcement that Universal is only backing HD-DVD will no doubt make other studios consider backing both formats knowing that now if people consider Blu-ray players/movies theirs that drawback of a company like Universal not backing the Blu-Ray which most certainly makes the case for Blu-ray having all the movies a little less true
if Toshiba publicly shunned Blu-Ray... not very surprising.
Let's se what happens, when by the end of 2007 ten times as many Blu-Ray players will have shipped.
This is what I don't get (maby someone can clue me in). How is blueray able to handle to PS3 High-def games, but it is unable to handle movies in High-def? It just doesn't make sense to me.