OnAxis writes:
"National Geographics today sent out to retailers information on the day and date about their upcoming title, Sharkwater. The title will not be coming out on HD DVD even though it releases on 4/8, which is before Warner's HD DVD June cut off date."
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" -
On Amazon, you can't get an RTX 4090 for less than this one from Gigabyte, which now offers great value after an eye-catching April deal.
kewl.
Time to see them legal uncensored boobies. lawl
Just stop making HD-DVD players. This battle is over and Blu-ray won.
Stupid Microsoft. What is the point of having HD-DVD when Blu-ray can hold up to 50GB - 200GB and the quality is better ?
You lose at life too. Blu-ray gives the developers more space to work with and while I do agree with you that most PS3 games right now don't utilize the capacity but as time goes by you will see the importance of blu-ray. As for the 360's version's quality is better, that depends on the developer and have nothing to do with blu-ray.
cry all you want mate, but DVD9 is rapidly becoming obsolete for use in games (LO is on 4 disks) and in about a year or two, every 360 game will be on two disks or more
and look who will come crawling to sony's feet- begging for some Blu love
EDIT: erm.. ok then have fun paying for yet another console while M$ drop the 360 completely and leave consumers annoyed and angry
this is why the next xbox will flop just like the 360:
-PS3 will have built up a sizeable install base and therefore 3rd party support
-as i said, consumers might be reluctant to buy the 720 in fear of M$ dropping after 3 years to make another console
-it will take M$ ages to develop a CPU more powerful than the cell and if they release 720 with an inferior CPU yet again- they will be criticized heavily and no one will buy their console
-M$ has poor 1st party support- the only thing they have is halo- which wont be developed by Bungie anymore
-3rd party will have learned the PS3 architecture and will be producing excellent PS3 exclusives and might not even bother with the 720 so it will be a bit like PS2 vs XBOX
-more and more people are refusing to buy M$ products nowadays (like me) because they have been cheated, fooled and lied to too many times
-M$ just sucks with hardware full stop (see RROD, disk scratching, the abysmal Zune etc etc)
-only fools like you will be prepared to dish out cash year after year for a product that gets worse and worse (presumably to play halo)
-who knows if the BDA will let M$ join them, and using HD-DVD not only limits the consumer with what HD movies they can watch- but HD-DVD also has a much lower capacity than blu-ray so yet again, games will appear on multiple disks eventually while blu-ray capacity will last for a LOOOOONG time (1000gb is the theoretical limit for blu-ray)