On the weekend before Christmas Day, many retailers across the country, including Best Buy, Circuit City, and Toy "R" Us, were lucky enough to receive a shipment of Nintendo Wiis to the delight of last-minute shoppers. Depending on the store, some retailers reportedly received 40 to 60 Wiis on Christmas Eve. Others received a shipment over the weekend, but in both cases, the console sold quickly and almost as soon as it became available.
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" -
GL compiles a list of some of the most mind-blowing video game narrative twists in recent memory, from The Last of Us to Outer Wilds
With articles like these cant you tag the games mentioned so that we can know ahead of time if there’s a spoiler to avoid?
Not clicking on your article otherwise.
Its alot of fun, but I dont see what all the fuss is about. I honestly wouldn't even call it a gaming console. Its more of a family fun type of thing.
It more directly competes with board games or things like that. I couldn't imagine playing any games alone, except for maybe Zelda. Thats only because i've been playing Zelda since I was younger though, but the Wii just isn't as exciting to me.
I can't even play in a room that has sunlight or the controller goes crazy. And if any obstacles are in the way it stops working. I was expecting a lot more because of all the hype the console is getting. Its fun, no doubt, but if this is the successor to the PS2 then gaming is in deep crap.
bubbles for you jandre02
Rabble rabble!
I thought it was obvious that Nintendo went with the non gamer / family crowd with the Wii ? They tried going hard core with the Gamecube & that failed & this generation Nintendo tried going with a different crowd & it is a success & now the "Hard Core Gamers" are crying foul.
I bought one at Target on Christmas Eve and security had to escort each one to the counter one at a time. They Blocked off the isles when they brought them out. They only brought out 9 at a time and there were at least 30 people waiting.