An unimpressive demo run by a guy who sounds like a used car salesman. We're only now getting games that really utilize two cores lets alone four so increasing that seems pointless apart from bragging rights running a tech demo. Developers have to cater for the lower specs and so you're always held back to some extent as much as I'd like to see some of the flight sims I own run over multiple cores to give me a better experience.

Anyone and their dog programmer can kick off a thread to do *something*. Making a game engine that does something interesting on all cores at once, while maintaining the sequential order necessary to run a game loop, is the trouble.

Multiple threads/core are useful for some stuff... but if you need to, for example, know the position of a character in a game world, to know where the camera is, and you need to know where the camera is to know where to start culling geometry for the render pipeline that frame, and the render pipeline can't start until its fed geometry, and...

Some stuff just happens serially. Lots of stuff, actually. You can't parallelize everything. One of the reasons the PS3 is so cool for parallel game code, is that individual SPUs are only like half the cost of a regular core -- so you can afford to double the number on the chip, and make the game loop steps that *do* fit with parallelism much faster. They just require more effort to program, since they lack the automated conveniences of a "full core", complete with full memory addressing and an automated memory caching mechanism. Having a ton of complete cores, for a game machine, is pretty wasteful.

Notice in this case, the GPU was the 'bottleneck'. Good stuff.

Tell me again how the multiplatform strategy was supposed to fix everything. Look at your results and compare them to Nintendo, which keeps thriving with exclusives. Your loyal fans are gone. And let’s not forget the pile of IPs you purchased only to let them rot.

The worst thing is this is down from last years numbers/expectations which was down from the previous years numbers/expectations. You think about how long “down” has been a consistent part of the communication and you realize those subscriptions are what’s holding that boat together. The price cut of gamespass is still a price raise in a string of price raises. They are trying to use players to offset the missing revenue. Now call of duty is out of gamespass, which is literally WHY they bought the company. To draw people to the subscription. They realized they missed a boatload of money and that wasn’t sustainable. Now you pay for it like you would have if they never bought the company… so why buy the company? Mind you those billions still need to be paid back. Yeah it gives you a chance to say we make the biggest FPS… but the internal conversations must be brutal at high level on topics that really matter. Like revenue. Profitability. And ROI for the shopping spree.

Is this like the 10th quarter in a row they're down 33% on hardware how is that even mathematically possible. You would think their mediocrity would Plateau