Looking at what console manufacturers are actively trying to do/are already doing:
• exclusive digital stores (no competition)
• digital games tied to one (!) account
• no re-selling/lending of digital games
• intransparent pricing policies
• restrictive refund policies
= pimping up revenue, because everyone MUST get their own copy.
That's what's called creating a blowout at some point in ti...
Anyone who's been following the console business for so many years, it indeed IS crazy today witnessing true & original Xbox/MS 1st party IPs coming to Playstation.
Forza, Gears now already there.
Halo & Flight Sim will highly likely be following soon, too.
Seems like Gears E-Day won't be an exclusive anymore.
Ain't it funny how the focus on profit always, literally always leads to less creativity, burned & bored out staff/players and ironically even lesser profit in almost every business in the long run?
How you know?
How you know I didn't?
Microsoft is making hundreds of billions of profit every year. Profit.
I don't understand why they do not carry these "risen costs" by those, but instead reaching them over to their hardware, which isn't really selling 20m units anymore, anyway.
@crazy
Last Q3 '24, their overall revenue was up 61%. (Thanks to ABK.)
What's left?
5%. In 12 months.
After they increased GP for an average of +18% across all tiers.
After they put Call of Duty (!) D1 into GP.
5%.
That's crazy if you asked me.
Missed that:
Because the actual question for them today is:
• Let's look at retail revenue we've lost from games being D1 in GP, e.g. Call of Duty (just to name the biggest one).
• And ask ourselves: would we've had gained more than +8% in content & services with the retail model?
Keep in mind there was a price increase of GP tiers which came effective in Sept. 2024.
And Sept. 2024...
Edit:
"Hardware revenue will probably sit somewhere between 800M - 1B for the quarter."
Was too optimistic.
It's estimated to be at ~330M in Q3.
This means hardware revenue contributed ~6% to Xbox total gaming revenue.
Which then means that 94% of Xbox total gaming revenue in their Q3 '25 was driven by content & service.
And that big portion is up 8% compare...
Hardware revenue will probably sit somewhere between 800M - 1B for the quarter.
And content & services make up around 75 - 80% of total gaming revenue. Total gaming revenue is up 5%.
While positive numbers are positive, I don't find +5% year-on-year in total revenue a great, not even a good result considering what they've been throwing into the pot since their last Q3.
I don't think they are happy with only a +5% payoff ...
Well, yeah. Nothing to disagree with you.
Although, as far as "dominating Playstation charts" goes:
We'll see. I have nothing against anyone dominating anything.
But this term of "domination" shouldn't be used too losely I suppose.
Indiana Jones was #1 best-selling game in a single week (so far). Let's see how Forza went.
And after May we'll have better numbers, ...
Back in the day, there were even discussions and I believe statements from Spencer about wether Sony would allow Game Pass on Playstation.
At least for the time being this option seems definitely to be ruled out completely.
And it's not just that 30% cut only.
Imagine if there's just one person saying:
"Mmmh, Indiana Jones is now on PS5. I just wanted to buy a new console. Oh, look here, Forza on PS now, too? Oh, what's that - Death Stranding 2 only on PS5? I guess I'm gonna get a PS5 then."
These are the decisions that lead to quarterly financial reports seen in the last one.
When Playstation made almost doubl...
That's my guess, too.
In hindsight, it's really been a bold decision to not release it on Playstation in a month like December.
But instead back in August already to announce it's going to come to Playstation, then proceed to make it a weird "4 ½ months timed exclusive", and then to release it in a time with so much competition/big games being around.
Isn't this just weird?
I mean why w...
I really gotta say I am a bit curious about E-Day.
With hardly any sales anymore, wether hardware nor software, probably not even subscriptions in a quantity they would want to have:
Is Spencer going to pull the trigger and bring Gears D1 on Playstation?
I'd guess they saw the potential of the game and paid Sandfall a very (!) good amount of compensation before-hand.
First and foremost, this must be great for the folks at Machine Games. Well done & congrats!
Geez.
I don't even know how to put it.
I mean, yeah, ok, that's just impressive.
While still remembering times when Xbox discs were on par or even sold more than Playstation's in the UK.
"they’ll let you suck their dick too"
So you're saying you already did that?
Great.
Well, I'll think about it, 'right?