Gpara has the result for the performance of PSP Slim & Lite (PSP-2000), which officially went on sale yesterday in Japan. Apparently around 130,000 units were sold in Japan, making it the second biggest one day sale for the handheld in the country since the launch of PSP-1000 back in 2004.
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:
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.
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
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
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.
Eventually they’ll realize the value is with the employee not the company. Buying an IP means nothing if the people who contributed are let go. They’ll get it one day.
tech is different because they buy threats and then kill them. Twitter bought Vine and did nothing with it. Despite people seemingly liking it. Could've had tiktok a decade before bytedance. go figure.
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" -
INDIE Live Expo, Japan’s premiere online digital showcase series , will debut never-before-seen games & content updates across more than 100 titles on May 25th.
I'm just not getting it. Is it called Slim & Lite? Or is there two versions one PSP Slim and PSP Lite? Can they not figure out what to call it and they give it two names? What's going on!
Well if it is just the new version of PSP selling then well done. Wish it was more of an overhaul then just making it smaller and liter but what can you do.
i think im gonna pick one of these up next year to coincide with playTV, its gonna be great to be able to steam movies/live or stored tv off you ps3 to your psp anywhere in the world!
The psp had it's second birthday March 2007 worldwide. Now games like Final Fantasy Crisis Core, Monster Hunter, Echochrome, God of War, Calling all cars, etc. are showing up. The psp should have a great 2008. I purchased a ds back in November of 2004. Playing Mario 64 on the touch screen was very clunky but fun (the nub on psp is way easier for 3d games). I did not even touch my ds again in 2005 until Mario Kart DS came out christmas 2005. Then I waited to May 2006 for New Super mario bros, the ds finally heated up worldwide with a $130 redesign. I was a little pissed, so it was done for me. I purchased a psp in fall 2006, and love everyday of it! Echochrome and God of war look too sweet to pass up. New Portable Ops, Kingdom Hearts, and many more on the way! Psp, it's your turn.
PSP deserves big sales. They say it lacks games. It may be true about overall number of games but in regards to AAA games, PSP is nothing short of DS. DS has so many games but only handfull of them are great and PSP has the same amount of good games. PSP FTW!
The Psp slim & Lite was out on 14th September in the UK (WOOOO, We're finally first to get something!)
Does anyone know what the figures were?
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