Other figures FYI
LinkedIn: +33% revenue
MS Azure (Cloud): +76%
Office 365: +36%
Gaming: +44%
Surface: +14%
Search Advertising: +17%
VR IS DEAD.
Just like motion controls and 3D Gaming.
Get over it.
Sony is not known for managing studios well either.
BigBig studios: Founded in 2001, acquired by Sony in 2007, closed by Sony just 5 years later in 2012.
Evolution Studios: Founded 1999, bought by Sony in 2007, closed by Sony in 2016.
Millenium Interactive, Founded in 1989, bought by Sony in 1997, renamed Guerrilla Cambridge, closed in 2017.
Incognito Entertainment, Founded in 1999, lost all their staff, closed in ...
Why use a 5 years old CPU to benchmark the latest GPU?
But yeah, I agree that most people here are just coming up with bs regarding their specs and claims about 4K / 60 FPS
I bought a gaming laptop earlier this year
i7 7700HQ
GTX 1060 —> 6 GB
16 GB RAM
I never tried 4K, because I don’t even have a monitor for 4K yet. :-)
Why no Forza Horizon?
So PSVR sold 1 million / year.
That is NOT enough to establish itself as a platform to develop games for.
Kinect sold 24 million till February 2013 - and it got killed.
Here you will find all the answers you need:
http://bfy.tw/KOqM
Great things done by Microsoft in the last year or two:
- Bought Ninja Theory
- Bought Playground Games
- Opened The Initiative
- Bought Undead Labs
- Bought Compulsion Games
- Bought Obsidian Games (Not official yet, but you know it)
- Xbox One Elite Controller
- Backward Compatibility for Xbox 360 and Xbox
- Play Anywhere Games
- GamePass
- Xbox One X hardware
- Kill Kinect
...
@UlteaNova,
I agree.
To me it feels like "so far, so good!"
The talent is huge though.
To be more precise:
- Darrell Gallagher, Head of studio, Crystal Dynamics (Tomb Raider)
- Tom Shepard, Technical Director, Rockstar Games (Red Dead Redemption)
- Brian Westergaard, lead producer, Sony Santa Monica (God of War)
- Christian Cantamessa, writer, Rockstar Games (Red Dead Redemption)
- Daniel Neuburger, Game Director, Crystal Dynamics (Tomb Raider)
- William Archbell, Lead Multiplayer Engineer, 343 industries (Halo)
...
The head of Crystal Dynamics and the Technical Director of Rockstar Games form up to build a studio...
What exactly makes a studio big for you?
Warcraft 4 !!!!
"The thing I never understand is why things that are choices anger those who would never use them?"
People hate other people for loving other people with the same sex.
Stuff that never affect their lives still makes people mad. That is just normal now, I guess.
Give me a modern C&C.
Just like Red Alert 2.
Hire Creative Assembly for it and please care about such things like "BALANCE".
Let people create their own tournaments.
Let people create their own maps.
Give us something like a great spectator-mode to push eSports for it.
Care about Anti-Cheat!
Making stuff up like this one here:
http://n4g.com/news/2175912...
Does N4G need to allow positive Microsoft news?
The rumour that MS could buy Playground Games was failed as a submission, because it was "speculation".
The rumour that MS will buy Obsidian Games was failed, because the source was anonym.
http://n4g.com/news/2209595...
But here we are, discussing pointless "articles"...
A lot of users here like Eonjay are trying to spread bs here.
If it works well, I don’t see any problems here. Buy Forza Horizon digitally, get it on Xbox and PC as a download was great. If they add streaming towards this, it will be even better!
And the comparison with Netflix makes me laugh - as if going to streaming movies was a bad move for Netflix or the consumers. It was the best thing that could happen!
Well, Minecraft is STILL the No. 1 game on iOS today.
Microsoft easily recovered all their investments. Back then I thought they were out of their minds to pay 2 billion USD for it. I was wrong though.
It is the 15th best selling PS4 game, selling more than the Witcher, God of War or Horizon.
It is the 9th best selling game on Xbox One, selling more than Destiny or Gears of War 4.
It is the 20th best selling game on ...
They will announce Obsidian Games joining them.
More news on Crackdown and maybe a teaser for Fable made by Playground Games 2nd studio.
Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild: 6/10
Ghost Recon: Wildlands: 5/10
Gravity Rush 2: 3/10
Dead Rising 4: 4/10
Gears of War 4: 5/10
Guitar Hero Live: 10/10
:-))))
What a joke. They are basically spreading BS to their readers for clicks.