Interesting to know.
Among MGS4, Agent was the reason I wanted and bought a PS3. (Who knew we would get other gems like Killzone 2 and TLoU.)
I always assumed it got cancelled due to hardware restrictions even at that time.
This rumour got blocked on r/xbox.
Who on God's green Earth plays Redfall.
They've paid 7 billion for Redfall. Stripped it off of Playstation. And Redfall didn't return anything but bad PR.
Genius.
By the way, just for fun:
Microsoft paid 7 billion dollars for Redfall.
In other currency:
That's 40x Concord.
Reaper
You know as well as I do that 'concern' is something we can comfortably switch off sitting on our sofas.
That's our benefit, if you will, watching capitalism unfold.
But:
I absolutely, with no hesitation admitting to it, from my sofa won't allow Microsoft to just pour their numbers and PR BS everywhere without context.
The same with comments like yours avoiding context, and cy...
"while operating income was $38.0 billion, up 24% year-on-year"
Between last year's Q1 vs this year's Q1, Microsoft laid off ~17.000 employees.
Congrats to their operating income being up 24%.
Am I the only one wondering?
How can their Q1 '26 sit at $5.5 billion in revenue?
When GP makes 5bn revenue annually (annually!), when hardware keeps declining and declining for 25 months straight now, when software sales are eaten by D1 GP, etc.
How's that possible? From what?
Man ... I don't know dude.
>>Following Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard, Nadella noted that the company is now the world’s largest game publisher<<
By what metric?
ABK was the largest 3rd party publisher by revenue before aquisition.
By what metric is now Microsoft the world's largest publisher?
So ... what's the metric specifically within the Microsoft Gaming Division?
That ain't metrics. That's a portfolio sheet.
When Nadella describes Microsoft as today's biggest publisher:
Can someone please tell me by what metric(s)?
Genuine question.
@software
No worries, apology accepted (but wasn't needed).
To sum my reaction up:
I fundamentally disagree with you.
The portion of 3rd party software that's being released over the course of a systems lifecycle, surpasses the quantity of 1st games by far.
Despite XGS now owning 26 former 3rd party IPs - to which I absolutely, with no hesitation whatsoever, highly (!) doubt that Microsoft i...
Because he's probably getting some royalties out of it, which is fine & right.
They can.
But don't combine it with their strengths.
HD2 has identity. I don't think Concord had. And Marathon seemed lacking it, too.
"For example, if Halo sells“
Please, stick to my question. Only one time.
I was clearly talking about 3rd party software. Halo is a 1st party game. So it's obvious they'll earn money from games THEY publish.
But what about 3rd party games sold through Steam, Epic, GOG?
You know - 3rd party. The biggest portion of revenue for consoles.
"[...] and even be profitable ..."
Seriously, no ripping:
I'm looking forward to the portion where they unfold the mystery about how Microsoft Gaming Division will be able to earn revenue out of 3rd party software sales.
IF they allow Steam, Epic, GOG, etc.
The Xbox consoles so far earned them a solid 30% share every (!) time a game was sold. Even from microtransactions. Because it all went through Xbox ...
As far as official statements & leaks are telling, PS6 is going to be the more sophisticated approach in hardware specs, as well as the Amethyst pipelines in close collab with AMD, with probably another powerful SSD inhouse tech and improved Tempest 3D audio.
Drilled for cost reduction and low power consumption.
Whereas Xbox Next is shaping up to be a power APU right from the catalogue of AMD, mixed with Windows and an Xbox environment to run Xbox gam...
Extrapolation and Interpolation are useful tools for understanding concepts.
Let's use Interpolation first:
• If there's only 1 console being sold, chances are close to zero that any game could become a million-seller pouring millions in revenue.
Now let's switch to Extrapolation:
• If there's, let's assume, 100 million consoles being sold, chances are close to, 80, 90 or even 100% that any game co...
"Not budged, if i want i can buy pc for 10k“
Yeah. That's my second point above, like "or only even want to spend a specific budget".
But console gaming, no matter the direction of people's reasons, is a budget choice.
There's been a market for "a gaming box cheaper than a top gaming PC" for almost 40 years now.
And it will continue to exist.
Please share the link with us from the former employee who tweeted that.