you clearly clueless or didn't read court case documents, CMA investigation etc..
i'll give you a hint, they don't give a shit about xbox.
Xbox Q4 2023 (fiscal) earnings: Gaming rev. up 1%, Xbox content + services rev. up 5%, Xbox hardware rev. down 13%
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i'll give you a hint, they don't give a shit about xbox.
The console is the heart and soul of xbox. Without the console, its not even xbox anymore. You never seemed to know much. you're always wrong. its pretty cute.
We are starting to see microsoft slowly moving away from that direction by making gamepass available almost everywhere on pc, tablet etc
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It's fairy clear that consoles have simply become a means to an end for MS - and that end is Game Pass. That's where their focus is, plus the Cloud.
Xbox and Sony's Recent Hardware Sales Reports Tell Very Different Stories - IGN
Xbox just reported its Q4 and full year earnings for the period ending June 30, 2023, which included hardware revenue declines year-over-year of 13%.
Isnt it strange how every quarter the gaming division does worse and worse and yet somehow they manage to "Biggest quarter ever." Obviously theyre cooking the books on some things.
MS has jumped the gun on trying to make cloud its first and foremost business in the beginning of the gen. Why would anyone buy an Xbox if you’re pivoting to cloud? Meanwhile, how are you going to convince people to subscribe to gamepass if you don’t have a platform to capture these people first.
MS fumbled once again.
MS fumbled once again.
You're right, and this almost killed Xbox and was why the hail mary Acti/King acquisition was needed. I think once that goes through things will start looking up for them at least on the software side. Hardware i'm not sure what their plan is.
it is so obvious. they manage to make over 15B in gaming. which is completely not true. Sony outsell them everywhere pretty much on everything by huge margin, yet Sony manage to do 26B, which make no sense.
they for sure cooking books. we already saw from FTC case that they are scamming their shareholders.
Xbox and Sony's Recent Hardware Sales Reports Tell Very Different Stories - IGN
Xbox just reported its Q4 and full year earnings for the period ending June 30, 2023, which included hardware revenue declines year-over-year of 13%.www.ign.com
"None of this would be entirely shocking for a console a solid three years into its life cycle"
I mean with 3 years in the its life cycle console should peaking at hardware sales... not going down.
IGN has no ideia of what they are talking about.
I think all that does is cover up MS's issues with software management. I said this years ago, putting the cart before the horse was the biggest misstep. Not getting software in a place it needed to be and correcting issues within MS like 18 month contracting clauses. Which is why software was so hit or miss even with studios they currently had.
Developer retention is something thats a must for consistency. SO now instead of making internal changes to hierarchy, which I find puzzling that Phil doesnt talk about openly?
Now they spend $70B just to be relevant. Pretty pathetic in my opinion. Buying properties you had no hand in making, or financially supporting. People love to bring up Sony especially when they were starting out. Heres the deal they bought primarily developers and ate the cost for many publishing deals for third party titles to bring them to more countries and regions.
Sony's disc based system and no publishing fee's is why Square jumped from nitnendo/sega. Same goes for capcom. In what world has MS done something akin to this?
OG XBOX was really the only time, specifically when talking about developers and courting them for dx9 development. Which benefited a boom in PC developers.
Anyone looking at both platforms and saying their history/culture are the same is lying straight up.
They just keep spending money that is coming from outside the division for acquisition.
MS growth by acquisition reminds me a lot of how Embracer did it and we saw what happened to them (at one point they were worth close to $15B and less than two years later they were bellow $3B.
Right now most of what the Xbox division does is to just destroy value for everyone. Gamepass is not taking off, game sales are low, hardware sales are low, indie games are worth less than ever, their studios are extremely unproductive and most seem unconcerned with actually delivering successful games.
Albeit profits of COD coming from microtransactions. But Warzone players gonna buy microtransactions anyway, so I don't see how Game Pass gonna reach more players to
COD B2P sales are just recouping budgets for marketing and development. I don't think COD 6v6 playerbase willing to pay 200 dollars(as the time of writing this) just to play COD year, instead of just 130 dollars.
Clearly COD won't leverage Game Pass from what I see.
They are already making money from microtransactions yet the profits are a billion a year.
Now takeaway people buying 60-70 dollar copies of COD and getting gamepass instead on PC and Xbox.
There’s definitely gonna be a lose in profits.
I highly doubt Gamepass subs will balance the books.
I don't understand how they gonna make money back with Game Pass. Even with price of 240 dollars a year it is still not possible.