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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 part of its plans to cut 1,900 jobs, Microsoft has reportedly shut down operations at Bethesda France, letting go roughly 15 people
Bethesda France was made up of roughly 15 people... they couldn't of being doing much
Bethesda France mainly did publishing and marketing within the region
Bethesda France focused on publishing and marketing in the region. And 15 people lost their jobs as part of the closure.
I wonder if this is part of Microsoft's strategy to abandoned physical media or possibly gamepass advertising makes their roles redundant you don't need to market a game as hard when the majority of players get the game as part of a sub which already promoted upcoming games
Tbh Microsoft I think Bethesda being 3rd party same with Activision would probably more competitive than thus scenario imo
The recently purchased Activision French offices might take over all the licensing and marketing for Microsoft in France from now on.
Hanzla from eXputer inquires: "If Xbox can care about preserving its games and legacy, what exactly is wrong with Nintendo, trying to kill game preservation single-handedly?"
Ahh yes the good old game preservation of saving all your games to a removable hhd on the Xbox 360, taking it round your mates house, setting up multiple tvs to
Be met with “save data corrupted, please re download”
Or how about removing 360 games
From the store
, download them now or else, and, better hope to god that save data doesn’t corrupt, or it’s lost for ever
Nice one ☝️
This is just a scammy PR move to distract from the fact they are going digital only and trying to push streaming and subscriptions only.
No gaming company has pushed harder to remove ownership than Microsoft.
Without discs there is no preservation, preservation can't be done by the rights holders it can only be done by the consumers, anything else is a lie.
Nobody wants this. Sales or the lack of it in the case of XBOX is very telling. I wonder how the adorably all digital series X will fare. Adorably dismal perhaps?
Only time will tell, but for from someone like me suspecting that Xbox is trying to gracefully exit the console market, that "forward compatibility" team is trying to get Xbox games playing on Windows PCs. I mean, it's nice that they're not planning on exiting with a "enjoy your games while the hardware still works" message, so that's nice. They still have a brand to protect via Microsoft so probably feel obligated to have a better exit strategy.
Number 1. Samsung buying xbox division.
I wish people would stop bringing up the paywall argument as a negative issue of the xbone, because us x-boys & girls don't look at it that way. We've had xb-live for years now and don't have any intentions on getting rid of it. Most of us get it by the year, so we're locked in. We get it to play online, so netflix and all the other stuff that you need a gold account to get access to is gravy. By gravy i mean free. Hell, they can put the whole console behind this so called paywall. It wouldn't make 48 million of us any diffrence. So suck it.
Sony makes you pay for online by giving away free games and putting online multiplayer behind a pay wall for PS4.
Microsoft makes you pay for online by putting most of their online services in the offering. But instead of free games, they do weekly discounts and event sales on digital content far more often than Sony does on PSN Plus.
What is the real difference? Both consoles have about the same attach rate for paid subscribers...
XBL gold subscribers are paying directly for the online services they are getting and Microsoft has never made consumers believe they are paying for anything else.
Meanwhile, PS gamers feel they are getting free games for their subscription. But, really what they are doing is paying for Sony to provide an online service and Sony is providing them with something that does not cost them anything to deliver (aka free games - The development and publishing of the free games are already paid for).
Have xbox gold so this services behind a paywall means nothing to me. It matters only if you do not want to pay for gold. Most I see complain about it have no intention of getting an xbox one. So I wonder why are they voicing their opinion here? Just a thought.