The difference between what you're saying and what I'm saying is, what I'm saying has already been proven to happen, everything you're saying is hypothetical. So, come back when you have an actual point, not a "maybe". The best you have is "but they might not next year!"
Let's see, which one of the two has a longstanding reputation for not delivering games for their system? Which didn't have a single first party game for the first 2 years of this generation? Which has repeatedly made empty promises and overhyped the games they did manage to get out the door?
It isn't a hardware limitation preventing it, so no that is not true. It is a limitation to the API that controls it, it was coded with directX in mind, and an API has not been created that allows for equal performance. Has nothing to do with the GPU or the power of the system, just the code that runs it.
That isn't a hardware restriction, it's an API restriction, they did not code support in for asynchronous use on non-directX systems. The developer would have to do it themselves.
being worth any amount doesn't prevent you from losing money. If a division isn't profitable, and it has become nothing but an expense, it must be shut down or it'll take the entire company down with it.
It'll be great without Jim Ryan running all the PS gamers out of the room by passing GaaS.
Or why boomer became the term to describe anyone over 30 by the tide pod chewers...
Talk about damage control, lol...
I do agree with him here, though, it wouldn't make financial sense for them. I would see them just backing out of console hardware entirely before making that decision, which is likely to happen anyway based on Phil's own comments (if we don't get a lot more subscribers by 2027, we're getting out of the gaming market entirely).
Gamepass isn't profitable enough for them to give up the profits made from physical or digital copy purchases. Plus, the develo...
It's more valuable because Bungie can create new IP that turns a profit far faster than Activision's entire portfolio will ever be able to recoup a $69 billion cost. If Bungie created another Halo-level game, and kept Destiny or another similarly successful GaaS game going, within a few games, they've paid for themselves. We have to also keep in mind they are being allowed to remain multi-platform, at least for some games, and that greatly increases the install base they can sell ...
There's no indication that anyone's data was compromised. They only got 6000 files, and they aren't saying what those files are. They could be firmware updates for their cameras for all we know, or word docs of financial records. We need to know more before panic sets in.
It's just Microsoft's office PC systems that allow the ransomware in to begin with... lol.
"Forza is the best racing game. Sure, it has fewer tracks and no VR, but it's better. Promise."
PlayStation will be feeling the pinch when their sales show it. They will be feeling the pinch when their executives are making comments like "If we aren't doing better by 2027, we may exit the gaming industry entirely" like their competitors are... Looking at you Phil...
Obscure out here talking like PS5 doesn't already have the best RPGs on the market... We just got FF16 and FF7 rebirth drops soon, all the other great jRPGs, Baldur's Gate, etc...
This is where it is eventually heading, gamepass will go platform agnostic and MS will stop making hardware. The writing has been on the wall for years.
Buying a company is no different than buying an asset to generate revenue for a business. Even if that asset starts generating revenue on day 1 that you buy it, you still are in the red as far as profit goes until you have recovered the money you spent on that asset. Microsoft spent $69 billion on Activision, a company with a Net Income (Annual): of 1.513B. That's 45 YEARS it will take at current Activision Net income levels to recoup the price Microsoft has paid for it. Even if we counte...
They should have tried to make something more original, instead of another dead space clone.
Eventually disc drives will be phased out, because discs are going obsolete. They load slowly, and people are buying fewer and fewer of them. I do video production for a living, I can't even buy the software I've used for decades to make DVDs and Blu-Rays anymore, and finding printers that can print on those discs is getting harder and harder as well. Discs will soon be a thing of the past for movies and games.
Not having a disc drive doesn't by itself mean th...
Microsoft themselves admitted GP's price will have to go up to remain sustainable.