Despite the recent moves in the HD format war, Blu-ray continues to dominate HD DVD in the place that matters most: disc sales.
We have seen Paramount change sides for US$150 million, and Toshiba dumping the A2 at fire-sale prices to make way for its new A3 player. Yet even with the massive release of Paramount's "Transformers" on HD DVD, it wasn't enough to keep Blu-ray from dominating in sales of discs.
The Nielsen VideoScan sales for the week ending 11/4 show BluRay with a 71% to 29% lead in sales over HD DVD. Year to date figures show Blu-ray at 64% to HD DVDs 36%, and since their inception, BluRay has a 61% to 39% lead.
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.
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" -
my god, i couldn't care any less about this ridiculous format war. neither are going to go away, and neither are going to pass standard dvd's for a long, long time.
RATATOUILLE and CARS are expected to outsell SPIDEY 3 and are on a killing spree at the moment
But teh Hd-dvd will win!!!$%£%"%^£
Blu ray is just keeps on winning. It's because of the PS3, I think. And it's probably selling a little more now with the $399 price and better marketing TV ads.
old and unwanted news? really, we have enough of blu vs hd-dvd here already.