It's just these weird Forbes contributor articles that get posted here way too much.
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Forbes Contributor: Microsoft's Xbox Revenue Is Plummeting, And Here's Why That's Fine
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The hardware drop is somewhat significant if it continues. Blame it on Fortnite is probably accurate, but I believe other factors are involved. The prices of these consoles are too expensive. It's crazy to think the X is still MSRP $500 and the S $300. Yet we have a new console 16 months away. If these consoles were cheaper they would be selling much better, especially the X.
Best indicator for a coach being minutes away from being fired? His bosses claim he's doing fine.
It's the Netflix strategy of dumping massive losses into each user in the hope of turning them profitable later. It's obviously all the rage these days so people have latched onto it as Xbox being "progressive".
This is weird. Software going down yoy is not a great indicator at this stage and you can't "blame Fortnite" and shrug it off as insignificant. I suspect the focus on game pass is eroding the amount of money spent on software and that's a problem they'll have to solve going forward.
I have the same suspicions, but then it's commonly touted around here that Game Pass is somehow increasing software sales.
I'm just catching up on the thread, but your understanding of this timeline and everything around it is off-the-mark.
I'll go out on a limb and say that if this is actually something MS considers a problem internally. Then they either already have a plan for how to deal with it, or currently have a bunch of highly skilled people looking at how to fix it.
I personally find it weird that people on era seem so doom and gloom about xbox, especially since MS have actually, for probably the first time since they got into console gaming, started behaving in a way that makes seem like they have a solid vision for the future of xbox
Honestly if anything. I'd be more worried about Playstation in a world where all the big US tech titans like MS, Google, and Amazon, are focusing on gaming
The fact that a Forbes contributor says its fine doesn't make it fine. Hardware sales are still relevant and software sales are still relevant. A lot. And in this two aspects, Xbox is failing.
I feel like this is always the Microsoft narrative alway with gaming.
Because they have the deepest pockets and whatever narrative re: its success or failure ultimately does not matter because a) deep pockets b) moving goal posts.
Because they have the deepest pockets and whatever narrative re: its success or failure ultimately does not matter because a) deep pockets b) moving goal posts.
Just for context, a "Forbes Contributor" makes it less credible/substantive. Effectively any paid Forbes account can make editorial write-ups like this, so you see a lot of middling-to-worse writing and topics that don't go through the traditional editorial filter under that banner.
Why would any company force consumers to purchase hardware to play games? With Cloud Gaming likely to become mainstream in the next decade, it absolutely makes no sense to have hardware exclusives.
To people saying that PC gamers aren't part of the XBox ecosystem, PC gamers are already considered to be part of the XBox ecosystem prior to Game Pass by Microsoft, 2015 press release essentially confirming that Windows 10 is part of the Xbox ecosystem:
Also, Xbox's press site has a Windows section:
Also, Xbox's press site has a Windows section:
Yeah I'm gonna disagree. That tech test has been the talk of every gaming forum, hell even the (toxic) pro Sony dudes on YouTube won't stop talking about, sure not in a good light lol it's mainly complaining about war being removed from gears title and the smoking thing but I haven't seen a single person rag on the gameplay itself... except for Dreamcast guy but his review said he loved all the refinements and the new change then in the same breath said it was bad because of said refinements and new change so... I think gears is going to do better than we all thought it would. Even seen radbrad play it and he's a casual lol, even he had a shit ton of fun. I don't think it'll sell like gears 3 but I think this'll do better than 4 at the most. I don't expect that to curb the next gen wait game hardware decline but gears and many other gamepass launches could at least have another big spike in subs and revenue related to it.
But SoT had no post launch monetization
PUBG sold 9 mln on x1 in less than a year, so basically 20% of the owner bought a copy, how the hell it could have had more success?
SoT microtransactions were supposed to come out last summer: pets and shit. They are either heavily delayed, or already cancelled.
When MS got the deal, it was a 2m+ concurrent user game on Steam, easily the next League or Minecraft. PUBG was bundled with every Xbox SKU. MS inserted themselves as a PUBG publisher and made it a timed exclusive, but by the time it came out, Fortnite was already booming. I doubt MS got the expected results from the PUBG exclusivity deal.
And how those things impacted 2019 fiscal year?
BTW mtx are in the insiders program, so not cancelled, but how those could have impacted msft earnings?
And I don't see how they were unsatisfied by 9 mln copies in less than a year
