During Microsoft’s CES keynote Press Conference during the early hours of this morning, the company’s Chief Executive Officer, Steve Ballmer, made a bold statement. While discussing the progress made in 2010, Ballmer suggested that the, “Three most important consumer devices,” are the Xbox 360, Windows Phone 7 and the Windows PC.
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.
I think someone sniffed their deodorant again. LOL...
Well he's hardly going to say
PS3, Android and Linux now. I find it worrying him referring to it as WINDOWS PC, it's like the first stage before going Windows 8 which is a bad move, Windows 7 is fine, I dislike the 1GB OF RAM ON IDDLE. I know it sounds really trivial but that's a lot, remember when you could do the same as you do now with 512mb of RAM. My old machine which ran Ubuntu out of the box used 400-500, Xubuntu and Lubuntu far less.
I use it purely for gaming, if DirectX was more open and all my games supported Ubuntu I'd run Ubuntu without a question, simply because Ubuntu feels more like an OS. In Windows 7 when you click open on a PDF file which is common it download, then Acronbat open, takes a consderable amount longer. Under Ubuntu you'd click open and it'd open. The softwere, isn't running on the OS either, but in it. I can click update and the OS would go out and find updates to all my stuff, download and install it. In Windows most stuff have seperate stuff, this was like how old PC gaming was, now we have steam.
Ubuntu vs 7, if you don't run games atleast try and dual boot, after you set everything up which takes about 30 minutes you may find yourself not going back. I went from vista to Ubuntu and it was just so much better.
He cant be serious.....
the list has some right
windows is easy to use better than vista but XP was the best
Iphone for good reasons but not going with at&t no way i am paying that much for 3g
ps3/xbox360
both systems are great let's just put it like that some gamers have games that they like to play on xbox360 others are fine with ps3.
psn should add some features like party system/chat but other than that i use psn and its just fine could it improve yes. has it improved YEH so give it some time
to be quite honest windows phone doesn't seem all that good but i have yet to try to but from just the advertisement it ain't nothing special
"Lol" isnt a big enough word 2 use right, NO-1 takes MS seriously these days anyway
Hell im STILL usin XP, not 4 much longer though, im gonna buy a Mac next week (or maybe 2moz)