"MS is making their games available everywhere."
Can WE all please once & for all stop this narrative and agree on unquestionable facts please?
That is:
First things they actually did was putting Redfall, Hellblade 2, Starfield and Indiana Jones exclusively to Xbox. They didn't bring anything "to finally be played everywhere".
All of them were designed multiplatform titles originally, it wa...
As of November 2024:
"This puts combined sales of the Xbox Series consoles at 25 to 27 million units."
And if we consider X|S arguably didn't even sell 1m in December, then, even if it did sell 1m in December, it would put the X|S at max. 28m sold globally as of December, 31st 2024.
It happened in the past already that fellow studio talent from the outside were given top secret information on purpose to talk about it publically.
Maybe to raise attention to an on-going internal conflict in HR people over there are afraid of raising themselves.
Or like here, for one of a technical matter they're also afraid to talk about fearing punishments.
My personal take:
This here is the game director of ...
.
I'm getting tired making fun of anything.
But ... I mean, I don't really know what to say anymore.
How can these earnings reports & calls be allowed to aaalways be so shallow in data when it comes to Xbox?
It's become somewhat of a running gag.
• Again no operating profit/loss numbers
• Noone knows what "+30% PC GP" means
• Noone knows what "quarter record GP revenue&q...
"hardware sales don’t really matter much"
I think you've just called Microsoft's console business strategy precisely they've been holding onto for 25 years.
Good job, Ooga!
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2025: 0 Xbox consoles sold.
MS: We forecast further Xbox console declines for 2026.
"Could be worse“
I know.
And how much worse it can get we are going to see as soon as their Q3 earnings report in April will have arrived.
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Honestly, I've read your answer three times.
And I still feel you didn't address the point of my comment but struggled around it.
Many IPs Microsoft had bought from 2019 going on were multiplatform titles in their original form.
Yet Microsoft had choosen to make them exclusive to Xbox and exclude Playstation.
Here's no "making them available everywhere"?
The only titles they&#...
You know.
It would be progress if we could at least finally see in such a report how high the operating profit or loss actually is.
It is ironic that the company cannot manage to list this data using Excel & Co.
They've had worse drops in hardware already, even above 40%.
So it's an improvement, riiight?
This is bad.
I mean:
• D1 GP releases
• Call of Duty as one of the top 3 IPs ever still full-price on PS
• Indiana Jones, Flight Sim, Stalker 2
• Black Friday & Christmas season
• 17% price hike for GPU
Yet their overall gaming revenue dropped -7% in Q2, hardware dropped -29%, and they've put in some incomprehensible minor +2% somewhere inbetween the woods of "content" you can't ...
I mean seriously, just asking. Really. Just asking.
Don't you see the irony?
If you don't, that's okay, but at least please explain to me why you don't.
The irony in:
MS went and bought 24 studios, 2 Publishers.
They've bought Hellblade (3rd party), Redfall (3rd party), Starfield (3rd party), Indiana Jones (3rd party.
And they went and made all of them exclusi...
Edit:
Their Q2 will be published today.
"Buy whatever device you want."
I agree with you, I am not fighting with you.
"Who cares as long as your funding Xbox."
I only wonder if you'd agree that R&D'ing, building and shipping a console for years comes at a cost.
And am asking you if you implied that Microsoft's logical communication to the outside world was
"Don't buy the Series, we don't ca...
So, going by that, then you're implying that
"Don't buy the Series!"
has been Microsoft's logical communication and goal? Because they don't matter?
To be fair:
It needs only 3hrs in Starfield to see all the planets.
And 297hrs of loading screens inbetween.
Once again, I find it more interesting to take a closer look:
In the penultimate October-to-December quarter of 2023 (Q2 at Microsoft, the annual report for Q2 of 2024, which has just ended, will be published in February), ABK contributed a total of
• 2 billion USD
to revenue at that time.
That's an average of USD 660 million per month, October to December.
The interesting part:
You just said that Hulst was demoted.
Which he wasn't.
When Hulst replaced Jim Ryan he became CEO of the Studio Business Group. Nishino was the CEO of the Platform Business Group.
Hulst remains as CEO of the Studio Business Group.
You now could just say: "Oopsie, sorry, I just confused it."
Up to you.
Probably.
There were some guys pointing this out actually in the last months. But don't know why they choosed to not touch it.