But who will win the battle of the booth babes?...
E3 is back early next month, with a return to the spectacle of old – with games publishers and hardware manufacturers putting serious amounts of marketing cash into a show set to feature big booths, garishly-attired 'booth babes' and loads of new videogames.
The speculation as to what Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony have up their respective sleeves has been raging online for months and it reaches fever pitch in the weeks running up to the event.
And while PRs, journos and publishing execs start to plan what to pack for their trip to La La Land, the Entertainment Software Association - the organizers of the show – have just stoked up the excitement levels by publishing the show floor plans.
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" -
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.
Chicken Chaser - you see this is the way things work. A person (let's call them a 'journalist') takes a piece of information and turns it into a story.
A site saying 'here's the floor plan' is not an original source when the floorplan is published on E3's website.
However, a journalist using that information to make a story is then putting a new spin on what is simply a floorplan.
In other words: get a grip.
What a stupid article.
omg MS, SE and Konami are on the same hall, FFvs13 and MGS5 confirmed 360 exclusive!
hehehe sorry can't help it.
LOL...so they show the sony side with a huge close-up and say they have more space..and shrink gthe Microsoft side and say they lost the battle of the booths??
Sign #3,506 that the internet is killing gaming journalism
Either way..can't wait for the show..
big stands for Sony and Nintendo.microsoft stand is much more little.seems that ms has not put so much effort in this E3 like Sony.however will see for the games.games make the true winner.only one thing is clear: Sony and Nintendo still are the business pullers of the entire gaming industry.