GSD European (September 2023) - PS5#1 (+175%) / EA Sports FC24#1
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Very concerning for MK, good news for EA Sports (not paying danegold to FIFA surely makes up for the slight decline) and I am actively happy that 2K sales declined, they've really overmonetized it, like 8 years ago their sports games were a breath of fresh air over EA's, now they're actively worse.
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Congrats to Titanfall 2 and RDR2, didn't think either would stand the test of time but herevwe are.
And turds: Xbox console sales numbers, it had a big launch this month, should have been up, not down. Also of note, I turned down a free month trial of Gamepass today, I value it significantly less than I do the ability to not have a Best Buy account.
Switch/Nintendo generally, obviously its a big month for new titles but none of their old warhorses are up there. No more blood in this stone, its time for Switch 2.
Other mots:
Congrats to Titanfall 2 and RDR2, didn't think either would stand the test of time but herevwe are.
And turds: Xbox console sales numbers, it had a big launch this month, should have been up, not down. Also of note, I turned down a free month trial of Gamepass today, I value it significantly less than I do the ability to not have a Best Buy account.
Switch/Nintendo generally, obviously its a big month for new titles but none of their old warhorses are up there. No more blood in this stone, its time for Switch 2.
Daniel Ahmad likes to crack jokes. However, I remember past tweets of his where it came across like he was supporting the Chinese Communist government. I mean his job is covering the game industry in China but some of those past tweets felt sus to me. Lol.
No. He's from London and his ethnicity is South Asian, perhaps Indian.
Seems the Bethesda acquisition to make Starfield exclusive and day one on GP is helping MS to achieve a monopoly in gaming.
Now seriously: I'd say that most of whoever was interested to get Starfield on Xbox already bought the console before or didn't buy one to play it on launch month. And the exclusivity and having it on GP didn't help to move consoles. This Goodbye Volcano High is a way better system seller than Starfield and Jim Ryan was a genious using it to counter Starfield because nobody else saw it coming. xD
The reason why MS isn’t creating a monopoly in gaming is because it is incompetent. We all know it.
I’m glad it’ll destroy CoD, though. Good riddance.
I really do hope it destroys cod, then folks can go back to actually playing good games.
Well, I'd say they have a couple of competitors who clearly outperform them in many areas consistently year after year, and not being able to acquire hardware market share by themselves they try to get gaming software market share via big acquisitions.
But the thing is that in the software gaming market the market is super fragmented into a gazillion companies, to the point that acquiring the biggest 3rd party publisher in console doesn't even give them 10% of that market.
Counting all things gaming together, people ahead them like Tencent and Sony have under 20% of the total gaming market share. Meaning I'd say it's impossible to have a gaming monopoly even if they keep burning dozens of billions. The market is too big and diverse.
Nope, he was just lying to cover his ass.Winning Plan after PS5 Reveal
Poor Phil, he was so excited. How cute
The obvious problem for Xbox and Microsoft gaming is, the world outside North America has soundly refused their gaming ecosystem.
That severely limits growth and makes it an insular and niche product, that only resonates with certain people, mostly in USA and Canada.
Buying entire publishers to force people onto that platform, just cut the sales and potential of the games.
Why are Microsoft making console hardware that they only lose money on?
Publish games everywhere and put Gamepass on everything they can. Job done.
Xbox as a console is a failed initiative.
I think the issue is, they have a vendetta against PlayStation...every move they have made recently is predicated on that.
That severely limits growth and makes it an insular and niche product, that only resonates with certain people, mostly in USA and Canada.
Buying entire publishers to force people onto that platform, just cut the sales and potential of the games.
Why are Microsoft making console hardware that they only lose money on?
Publish games everywhere and put Gamepass on everything they can. Job done.
Xbox as a console is a failed initiative.
I think the issue is, they have a vendetta against PlayStation...every move they have made recently is predicated on that.
Thankfully Xbox is losing out here in the ol' US too. Yeah I know it's still their best territory but at least it's still in a nicely distant third.
The reason the world refused them is because their corporate ethos just isn't compatible with succeeding in gaming.
You can't brute force your way in. You have to put out a good product, and microsoft is not good at that.
Microsoft are all about the brute force.
Ironic, since Bill Gates...wasn't very physically brutish.
This doesn't intimidate the hell out of you?Microsoft are all about the brute force.
Ironic, since Bill Gates...wasn't very physically brutish.
They a fish out of water, too corporate exactly but also they are a tech company not an entertainment company. They had no reason to enter gaming other than “my dad got money to burn”
Didn't daniel Ahmed meet up woth Phil spencer in japan or something? Wouldn't be surprised if he is a paid shill now