Retailers are reporting huge demand for PlayStation 3 as Sony gears up for what UK boss Ray Maguire says could be the company's "biggest hardware launch to date".
His comments were echoed by Gerry Berkley, head of games at Woolworths, who told GamesIndustry.biz, "PS3 pre-orders are coming in thick and fast. It is the fastest selling games product we have ever sold online and it is shaping up to be our biggest ever pre-order campaign for a console."
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" -
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And if Sony stalls the release another year for Europe it will reach legendary pre order numbers.
Wow, second only to Harry Potter. Thats pretty impressive. I guess it goes to show how much cry babies on the internet opinions count for things. If they had 5 million units ready for all of Europe they'd probably sell them in the first month. Sounds crazy, but the games are comin out in the next month or two, BR is taking off and Launches make people crazy. Sounds like demand is really high.
i think that people are expecting too much from ps3, i think that a lot of people in europe who have not seen it yet will be dissappointed.
everything i have seen on it (genji, ridge racer 7 & gundam) is very poor & does not even come close to xbox 360 & pc.
i own a 360 but am not a fanboy, i also own a gaming pc. at one time i had a pc, ps1, ps2 gamecube & dreamcast.
i just feel that ps3 is overhyped and a lot of people will be dissappointed with what is an average gaming system. i hope that this changes soon with the release of new games because i was interesting in getting 1.
with the games i have seen i wont be preordering 1, i want to see a games that impresses me before i part with my cash
Sony better hope all those pre-orders don't endup on ebay as they did for the US. Sony makes money of software attach-rate no console sold.