Headline is misleading. “Viable” does not mean profitable. Eventually, yes. Right now, no, Microsoft burned $82B in cash on Zenimax and Activision. Game Pass has to earn that back before it will ever make a profit.
Was this made by a.i.? No human being would put Shadowrun, Fable III, and Splinter Cell: Conviction into a list of the 7 best Xbox 360 games.
You know what I mean. Like any other 3rd party publisher, would Microsoft take lump sum payment form Sony to add a game like Starfield to PS+? Microsoft’s CFO seems to say yes.
As a 3rd party publisher, would Microsoft sell a game to Sony to include on PS+ Extra? That would be ok with me.
What does your local store have in stock?
VR will never sell in the tens of millions. Too many problems with wearing a screen on your face.
“talking to other partners who’d also like to see more choice for how they can monetize on the phone"
Great. I always more companies to work with Microsoft to monetize my phone.
And it’s already been pulled by Bungie. Sony has to be reconsidering its decision to buy Bungie. This is top down dysfunction.
This is the right idea. Pay what you want to pay.
“Hopelessly Failed Kids Everywhere”
At the time, the Jaguar was not marketed as a kids console. Just look at the games: Doom, Aliens versus Predator, and Wolfenstein 3D. This was basically a PC gaming alternative for grownups. Made sense when the Nintendo and Sega owned the market for kids games. Except of course that grownups already had PCs that played PC games. Keep in mind that back then, graphics ran on the CPU. Gaming PC prices were net yet inflated by the cost of de...
My number 1 is crappy a.i. written clickbait articles from suspect gaming “news” sites.
Dune 2000 is also acceptable.
Mimi once asked my kids if they would know what do to with a game disc. They didn’t. So it’s been gift cards ever since.
Microsoft’s CEO talks about Xbox hardware as a low margin business and games like Call of Duty as a high margin business. He says, “Then what you do is you also expand and say, we're now driving high-margin sales on PlayStation, on Nintendo."
So Microsoft is becoming a 3rd party seller because the growth for Microsoft is in selling games on PS5 and Switch. What did you expect? Microsoft already told the court in the FTC case that it lost the console war and Phil t...
Microsoft doesn’t want to just sell services, they want a monopoly on services the way they have a monopoly with Windows and Office. I don’t see how it will ever happen, but it’s not my money to burn.
I’d buy the shit out of Halo on PS5. Money is on the table.
“I won´t expect Playstation getting any favors or special treatment from Xbox ever again”
Microsoft isn’t a person. There was a time when Steven Ballmer would have thrown a fit if he saw a Microsoft employee with an iPhone, but Satya Nadella and Phil Spencer live in the grown-up world of business. If Xbox goes 3rd party (and I feel like Phil has already indicated this is a “when” and not an “if”), they will gladly profit off PS5 owners.
“What about Sony tlou2 ‘review bombing’”
Whataboutism is the epitome of a weak argument but even so, incels complaining about women in games isn’t the same as customers who are disappointed by gameplay and graphics.
SBMM is essential for keeping on-line multiplayer healthy. If you want to win every time, play single player on easy mode.
“probably”