Due to intense reaction to gamingfront.net's previous article 'Is The Xbox 360 In Real Trouble?', the site felt the need to explain the numbers used to justify the article. No spin just numbers. The Xbox 360 is in real trouble!
Gamingfront.net wrote the article after reading a examination of the numbers done by the awesome website Gamasutra.com. The following is a direct quote from that article:
"Gamasutra examined data provided by the three major platform holders -- Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo -- to stitch together a full picture of just how the market share has changed from 2007 to 2008, and how Microsoft made less money with its Xbox 360 business in 2008 than in the previous year."
Take the jump for pie charts and more.
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It turns out that many moons ago, Microsoft once had its eye on the Sony published LittleBigPlanet series.
Project Spark idea was decent but they quickly gave up ..
LBP was wonderful
Microsoft in a nutshell. Always tried to poach Sony employees, games, 3rd party games and devices like the depth camera that was turned into Kinect but was running on PS2 before Xbox 360. Wouldn't be surprised they wanted LBP. Just like they worked behind the scenes pushing the MLB to bring Sony's baseball game to Xbox instead of making their own.
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They didn't spend years trying to develop their own baseball game. They wanted Sony's game.
They're scum.
Microsoft didn't force MLB on Xbox. MLB gave Sony 2 options either go multiplat or risk losing the license.
Totally ridiculous comment.
The only exclusivity Sony had was to their own creation of The Show. Microsoft could have paid the MLB for the license just like Sony did and made their own baseball game.
Microsoft instead, groomed MLB for years in trying to poach Sony's game and bring it to Xbox. They're worth 3 TRILLION dollars. You think that's not enough money to make their own baseball game? Don't be delusional.
Microsoft spun it like they always do and told the media that they had to trust Sony with their hardware. After they put Sony in that position of not having a choice. Either go multiplatform or stop making one of their successful games. That's a no win scenario.
And what did Microsoft do? They didn't try to sell the game to the Xbox community. They put it on game pass to hurt Sony. Pushing the idea of why buy games that are $70 when you can play them in their cheap service for $10. It was a dirty tactic.
You fell for the Kool aid drink Microsoft served you instead of spitting it out. Hope it tasted good because you were fooled by Phil and the gang.
Xbox executive Sara Bond has told Axios that Microsoft spent a number of years trying to get MLB The Show onto Xbox consoles. And when it finally succeeded in breaking off PlayStation’s long-held exclusivity, the company had to “trust” Sony with pre-release Xbox Series X/S consoles.
Bond revealed that MLB The Show “always came up” in conversations between Microsoft and the Major League Baseball organization. “We always said, ‘We love this game. It would be a huge opportunity to bring it to Xbox.'” she recalled. However, when Microsoft’s efforts materialized, it put the company in an awkward situation where it had to send in pre-release consoles to a rival company.
"Microsoft instead, groomed MLB for years in trying to poach Sony's game and bring it to Xbox."
Take a nap, conspiracies are rotting your brain.
Xbox executive Sara Bond has told Axios that Microsoft spent a number of years trying to get MLB The Show onto Xbox consoles. And when it finally succeeded in breaking off PlayStation’s long-held exclusivity, the company had to “trust” Sony with pre-release Xbox Series X/S consoles.
Lying to yourself is unbecoming.
Article link tells you all you need to know in Sarah Bond's own words.
They were too cheap/inept/lazy to develop their own mlb game, so they port begged for years and bribed the mlb to make the show multiplatform. Like i said many times, xbox brought nothing to the table their 24 years, ZERO.
At least you and others get it. Note drank the Kool aid and asked for seconds thinking it was refreshing.
Most don't even know how it all played out but it's there in black and white for all to see. Microsoft brought it up for years until the MLB forced Sony's hand. It was a win win for Microsoft. Kill one reason to buy a PlayStation or kill the game by dropping it in a cheap service to kill Sony's sales numbers on PlayStation.
"However, Healey said Media Molecule wouldn't have felt right doing that, adding it would have been "morally corrupt"."
Major kudos to Media Molecule for being an upright studio with principles.
They chose well, Sony gave them the backing to pursue their dreams with no restrictions even tho their games especially dreams have very niche appeal. Media molecule and Sony deserve respect for this in an age of risk averse publishing.
Great, more stories like this please. Show the last of the zombies holding the line what we've been saying for years: Microsoft is anti competition, anti industry and has no interest in making games at all.
But hey, at least there's an Xbox Games Showcase to look forward to, right?
Well considering SONY just killed the series, LBP would've been dead by now either way. Though MM probably wouldn't exist by now either, so I'm glad they stayed with SONY, hopefully they don't get shut down any time soon or ever honestly.
They shut down the servers, that's millions of user created levels gone. That and dead are pretty much the same, it's also been years since 3 and they cancelled HUB soooo.
They shutdown the servers because no one was playing, no one in the community cared about the user created levels so why keep them up? Wtf you guys would never succeed in running a business.
Yea dood no one was playing so they shut off the servers. Cause people with enough common sense can't just Google why they were actually shut of, right?
Take that crappy xbox fanboys. Real facts and numbers to prove a point.
Wow. With 360 fanboys so obsessed with sales numbers, attach rates, and adoption curves, these cold, hard numbers are hard to ignore...
People will still find a way to argue them in their favor though. Even when MS explains to their shareholders that they sold more consoles, but made LESS money than the previous year.
"Bu-bu-but the price-cut!", you say. Well 2 price-cuts in one year will certainly take a chunk out of the bottom line. Some might even say that it looks, oh, what is the word...desperate?
Honestly, Sony and MS should just team up at this point. MS can't seem to make successful hardware - even after 3 years (*glares at disc-read error 360 sitting, contentedly, in the living room). And Sony, well they don't seem to grasp the concept of actually MARKETING their software. 3 million spent on what? Internet banners? That's great for tech-saavy enthusiasts, but Jane and Joe will never see Killzone 2 anywhere in-between their "Heroes" prime-time viewings.
A great epiphany came to me in my last post... Of a united console future. The marketing of MS wed with the 1st party/ engineering of Sony.
Playbox forever!
I kid, I kid (though it would be nice).
Cheers,
- C
I think out of all the consoles the 360 is the one possibly in danger in 2009. Sony is gearing up with some of the most exceptional AAA games along with an inevitable price cut. The PSN will have a much bigger library of full games that the 360 can't match along with lag less multiplayer online goodness.
More third party support for the ps3 and HOME, and keep in mind it is all free of charge. The momentum will be strong for the ps3 with so many games that it could survive just of the exclusives like everyone month of the year. Nintendo will do what they've done this whole gen. But Microsoft really needs to justify why people should care about the console with announcements of their exclusive games for 2009.
Everybody knows that price is the only factor this gen but they need some form of momentum to keep them going for 2009 and beyond. There is not a single game that can push console sales for the 360 as of yet while the ps3 has several console movers in 2009.
It seems like the shoe is on the opposite foot now that 360 owners are the ones saying wait for "X" games to be announced by Microsoft at GDC/E3 etc etc. Don't forget that Sony also has a couple unannounced games for 2009 that is sure to further strengthen their line up. As have stated many times before gamers are the real winners so i hope Microsoft comes to the 360 owners aid soon.
how there are NO 360 fantards in here. Know why? Because the article states facts, and xbots just hate facts, especially negative facts about their failed console.