The thing about games like COD MW2 that bugs me is most people don't buy it for the rave reviews they don't even buy it for the great graphics or storyline (hell since they sell so much on day of release you have no idea if the story-lines gonna be good). They buy for 1 main reason because they know fine well their friend is gonna buy it it's a rule of thumb if you stick with a series like Call Of Duty or Halo you know when you buy it there is a good chance your friends are gonna buy it.
We are in a new world where we have a lot of online friends now and it's hard to go around and ask which games each one are planning on buying over the next few months so you gotta stick with the most famous method and COD MW2 is exactly that. No matter how good this game was gonna be (it could have been the worst FPS this gen) it would have still sold 7 million on it's first day. People buy it for the simple reason they KNOW it's the game everybody else gonna be playing over the next few months and you don't wanna be sat on a server with next to no players trying to find enough to start a game do you?
This is also why games like Uncharted never sold aswell as COD as this is the first instalment with an online mode. If you need more proof of this theory look at all the huge sellers on 360 and PS3 they all have online multiplayer. From your FPS to your football games. It's called safe buying if you love the multi-player experience the new generation of consoles has given us.
The last gen had online multiplayer but never really took advantage of it enough for it to be a major benefactor for buying a game but we live in a new age of gaming and unfortunately multiplayer sells. That's how COD MW2 can get away with a crappy campaign mode the online multi-player is the selling point.
Playstation sales right now are gonna be lower also for this as Playstation gamers are still not as used to the online gaming experience as 360 owners as it wasn't THE main feature when launched. Now it is however people are starting to change but of course it will take time.
Microsoft announced its financial results for Q3 of fiscal year 2026, including an update on its gaming Xbox business and more.
Not looking good. Hopefully Asha Sharma is able to turn Phil’s disaster around.
To me it's still quite remarkable how they can cash-in 5.3bn in revenue in a single quarter, since their hardware is basically dead.
The stock mark is what makes Microsoft remarkable, They have convinced every institutional and retail investor to just keep piling money into them. Like many big tech giants they are just a big growing pyramid scheme. As long as people keep dropping money into ETF's that cover the market Microsoft will always be liquid. At the same time it is completely stifling innovation and competition. People need to start being more discreet in how they invest their money as it's killing the system.
Riiiiight because people will just flock back to them for one or two games per year.
15+ years of bad performance is what they call irreparable in business. It is time for them to sell off the assets and get out of entertainment.
These declines are on the back of extra revenue received from releasing games like Forza horizon 5 on PlayStation. So I’m being sarcastic here when I said they should go back to exclusives. Killing off a revenue stream from Ps5 sales will only make things worse
The charity event will be streamed live from Gamescom in August.
Thanks to the slip-up of an artist working on the title, we now have more evidence that a new Injustice game is in the works.
