"Ron Sanders, president of Warner Home Video, estimates The Dark Knight could sell its 1 millionth Blu-ray Disc copy by Saturday. He spoke to Home Media Retailing and offered this, "In the first two days across those three territories, Blu-ray Disc sales are running between 25% and 30% of total sales, which is a massive number. We had expected Blu-ray to account for a significant percentage of sales, but not quite this high, which speaks well for the format. It's really catching on with consumers.""
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.
I can't see anyone being taken seriously if they say the Blu-ray isn't catching on at this point.
There is article after article showing that Blu-ray is being embraced at a phenomenal rate.
If I don't get this movie for Christmas, I'll be at the store on the 26th picking up a copy! :-)
Wait, I thought Blu-ray was pointless and was never gonna catch on?
I wonder how many D.D. copies of this movie sold...
...TWO DAYS!
Sold out at my local store for two days!
I hope the shipment comes today. I'm rushing home when work is over.
Bluray is a beast.
I still haven't bought it yet, maybe after class today. This film was friggin' incredible.
Glad I got it on blu-ray, I got Invited to the BD-Live Special Event with Christopher Nolan, the first 100,000 who sign up for BD Live and accept the inv gets in. The blu-ray was really worth it. Comes with 3 disc's. First disc,movie with Imax scenes, second disc is loaded with bonus stuff, close to 3hrs extra, then the last disc is a digital copy.