"Europe is our priority focus right now," said Aaron Greenberg, Microsoft's group product manager for Xbox.
After failing to capture market shares in Japan from Sony and Nintendo with a one-year head start, Microsoft may be running out of ideas to woo gamers in Japan and will target video gamers in Europe as the priority. The European gaming market was worth $7.8 billion in 2006; Japan's was $5.9 billion.
"It's difficult to see Microsoft capturing a significant share in Japan; after two years on the market, Xbox's position in the country is such that it makes you wonder whether further efforts are even worth it," said Hiroshi Kamide, a Tokyo-based games analyst at KBC Securities Japan. Kamide also said competition in the U.S. and European markets will make Japan a lower priority for Microsoft.
The first PlayStation is home to an array of iconic video games that went on to define the sheer significance of this console.
I think from a historical perspective I would change Spyro for Grand Turismo. It's the franchise that made the PS1 look like an absolute unit. Other than that, I can't argue with the rest when it comes to games that defined the PS1.
And to be honest, there should be space for Tekken 3, Wipepout and Tony Hawk's Pro Skater in order to round out the PS1 identity as the machine to own at the time.
With Tomb Raider 2, Silent Hill, Symphony of the Night, Tenchu, and Soul Reaver as backup contenders.
This could be fun as they make great tables. Go big or go extinct. Prime your senses for a neural handshake and step into the cockpit of a Jaeger. It is on you to cancel the apocalypse when Pacific Rim Pinball comes to Pinball FX on May 16.
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.
you should apply in MS PR team buddy, I think you will do a great job in my humble opinion :)
MS: "Xbox services and content without AB up 1%, with AB up 62%. Hardware down 31%. In total a loss of 350 mill."
darthv72: "Seems about right."
MS: "Excuse m ..."
darthv72: "I don't hardly play on my consoles directly."
MS:
What he said was facts. How he plays games is no concern of you. Don't get too mad about it.
I can tell people like you are an absolute minority..
If service is up means their fans and fanboys accepted this model and subscribed to it. The near future you will see a big decline because the service is saturated.
to you it may seem like the minority... but your bubble is shrinking because more and more are following suit. convenience is a hell of a drug and its also why physical sales only amount to 30% of overall game sales. times are changing, you either get with them or you get left behind.
Darth
30% physical sales: yet Phil and xbox division are in a rush go give up on that 30%. they don't have any right to give up any piece of the pie since the control such a little of the pie to begin with
also, the market is clearly speaking that the model Xbox is pushing isn't working right now the keyword being right now. you are right about freedom to play anywhere so i hope they put their games on steam
But that's been ms for years. When things aren't going their way they try to change the way things are said. For instance console sales are down, they stop telling how many sold instead telling us how many hours spent in halo or headshots. So it makes sense console sales down just say people are playing on more devices then previous. What they won't say is how many xbox players jumped ship to ps5.
Hardware sales are so bad that Sony and Nintendo are blowing the sales off the water with their hardware.
If Xbox are losers, others aren’t..
Xbox already tried everything with Xbox live then subscriptions went down so much that they had to find something else. Their fans subscribed then reached saturation rather quickly.
Hardware and exclusive games is where it’s at! Keep gamers excited, announce decent software and people will support you
@shin
Well keep it simple Sony 's operating income is down 26% and Microsoft's is up 32%. No MS spin there, just facts. 😉
Cheers
MS is after diminishing consoles as a medium. They want to destroy this market because they couldnt win. MS’s vision is to dissolve console gaming.
Odd that a company that touts you dont need the hardware to play is already touting another console in the works.
They are not reliant on the HW but still want to maintain a presence (no matter how small) is a good thing. It shows commitment to the craft. It reminds me of SNK and how they made games for their own hardware (Neo Geo) while also making them for others because they knew there was a market to do so. They knew they would sell more to others but also sell to their own niche fan base.
Perfectly reasonable post down voted by insecure corporation friendly folk.... But not gamers. Real gamer want accessibility and ease of acquisition for all.... Company shills are the only ones still telling us that hardware locking people from games is good for us.
@Darth
You should stop parroting metrics like an idiot without context.
"Xbox content and services revenue grew 62% in Q3 from a year earlier, “driven by 61 points of net impact” from the purchase of the third-party video game giant, Microsoft said."
61 of the 62% was from their merger so net increase is ONLY 1%
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@chevalier
It looks like made a great purchase. Much better then Sony buying Bungie. 😉
Cheers
In the last two years they've started exiting the consumer market altogether. All of the newest Surface products are business models only. They can't seem to work out what they want to do with it.
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.
Activision: "we gonna need a bigger rucksack/backpack please"
Microsoft: "why's that"
Activision: "to carry yo' weak ass'
Top brass have also wanted to start seeing returns on the 100 billion they have put into various Xbox related moves so seeing more multiplatform games is highly likely especially from abk
It's basically saying that PlayStation is the reason Xbox is afloat right now thinks to Ps5 versions of COD
The only growth MS will get out of the console industry is if it supports it's rivals platforms. Xbox is a pointless machine now. I can see them on a big push for live next, and they won't give up on trying to buy Steam.
which is totally at odds with what they said and showed at TGS....hmmm
And last I checked...America was their priority market...
Smart move, Microsoft. The Japanese don't like your system for obvious reasons? No problem. Just make the Xbox brand known in Japan so the Japanese companies can make software for your console while tagerting Europe and North America. Took them a while figure that one out.
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Relatively speaking, European values are much, much closer to American than Japanese to American. The types of games Europeans make, play and prefer are also much closer to the types of games American make, play and prefer: they are all "Western" games. Think X-Com (UK), the Longest Journey (Norway), Gothic (Germany). They are all European games that were way more popular in the US than in Japan.
It makes sense for Microsoft to go after the European markets first before Japanese, and Microsoft can play a role in porting titles between the two continents. European game makers will get to expand into American markets, and American gamers will get bigger selections of Western titles that appeal to American taste much better (over Japanese titles.) Both European and American games markets will be happier. That's killing two birds with one stone.
Personally, I would rather play European games over Japanese ones... European games and stories are more coherent and make more sense to me.
It´s simply just wrong to evaluate the European tendencies all the same way. You simply can´t do it. While culturally and upstanding values wise it´s easier to identify US and Japanese Citizens in the same way you can´t do the same for the several Euro countries... Period.
But it´s been said before, if there´s ground to decide the so called Console Wars (sales wise the deciding territory) will be most likely Europe.
If we consider next-Gen being just 360 and PS3 (which is correct to assume Wii is not per se). I would probably say that:
- US will be 360
- Japan will be PS3
- Europe will hover between the two until next next Gen comes around
However there´s a odd unbalanced there which was for sure not unintentional. By the current scheme of things... the next MS machine will be launching way sooner than the next Sony console.
3 years tops would be my guess and that sort of makes it difficult to pinpoint "winners" or "lossers".
Just my 2 bits...
Give us good games...we´ll be happy regardless of the rest.
land a deal with square enix.