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Nadella:We set third quarter records for game streaming hours, console usage, and monthly active devices...had 7 games among the top 25 on the PSStore
nosoynadie22
Member
I imagine they want to release games on Playstation and Nintendo to maximize the benefits of Microsoft's game and not because they have lost faith in the Series x|s consoles.
SlimySnake
Flashless at the Golden Globes
Note to Sony CEO: this is how you spin bad news to investors. You take the positives and make them look even better. Sony ceo threw the ps division under the bus even after they had a great year while this guy is straight up ignoring the 30% drop in hardware sales because the business is still strong elsewhere.
This is a good leader. Wish Sony bosses showed this much faith on PlayStation.
This is a good leader. Wish Sony bosses showed this much faith on PlayStation.
Coloress_Kafka
Member
Now that PlayStation users have had a taste I’m sure they will run out to buy Xbox Series Consoles and sign up for GamePass to get the FULL experience!
ChorizoPicozo
Member
you said it: This is how you spin bad news.
I think the Sony guy was blunt because Sony doesn't have infinite money to throw around. This is good leadership: Fix your shit, we are a business.
Physiognomonics
Member
This is a Ponzi scheme they are doing under our eyes. They just bought those games revenues, and they are not counting the money spend here obviously. Without them they would be flat / sligthly down. And with that US inflation (that is financing their proxy wars) flat means quite down.
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StereoVsn
Member
Yep, Sony doesn’t have $20-30 billion of net income a quarter like MS. Nadella can shrug it off because for a $3Trillion company even AKB $70 bil purchase is peanuts.
you said it: This is how you spin bad news.
I think the Sony guy was blunt because Sony doesn't have infinite money to throw around. This is good leadership: Fix your shit, we are a business.
Hell, they are plowing $100bil into R&D on their Nvidia AI chip replacement.
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rhodesianshepard
Member
Holy shit, I forgot Pal World released this quarter, and Microsoft still only shipped 800k consoles for the entire quarter. Pal World was on Gamepass too. How does that not move more consoles?
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ByWatterson
Member
Monthly active......devices?
LOL
LOL
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It did in Japan
ProtoByte
Member
I don't agree. I think that telling investors as much of the truth as possible as the best thing. One day, investors will figure out the truth. The only reason Nadella can "get away" with this is because no one investing in Microsoft is doing it for Xbox. Everybody who does care knows that the brand is in pathetic position, and has known for a long time. Blowing smoke up the collective ass of the games media and online "community" hasn't stopped their downwards spiral over the last decade.
The sooner investors have a realistic view of where the game industry is going, the better.
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Loomy
Thinks Microaggressions are Real
Earnings calls aren't the place to jerk off departments. You give investors the truth about what's happening with the business. Nadella wouldn't be doing this if he didn't have something to sugarcoat.
semiconscious
Member
nadella: 'meanwhile, & continuing an on-going trend we've been tracking for the last several quarters, far more staff once again wore xbox t-shirts to work than both playstation & nintendo t-shirts combined!'...
rhodesianshepard
Member
Link?
Xbox Series is the only ones up this year ( not by much but a win is a win lol) https://www.neogaf.com/threads/famitsu-sales-week-16-2024-apr-15-apr-21.1669865/
Yonyx
Member
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darrylgorn
Member
Good MS News?
I mixed it up but since Pal World they have been selling more
Blaming G&NS allows Totoki to avoid taking responsibility for his own decisions.
Q4 Operating Income Forecast (before Helldivers II success)
G&NS ¥86 bn
Nintendo ¥46 bn
The truth:
Totoki: "I wasted 3 trillion yen on Music, Pictures, Buybacks and Dividends, thus impairing Sony Group's ability to generate free cash flow, and now I'm taking on debt to finance buybacks and dividends.
The interim CEO thing is a charade. I fucked up big time, and I want to make sure that G&NS, our second smallest segment by assets, generates record free cash flow ASAP in order to save my own ass"
Sony shareholders lost ¥2 trillion in value after Totoki tried to avoid accountability by throwing SIE under the bus; Sony Group lost ¥135 billion and G&NS 900 employees after Totoki's buybacks and mass layoffs in Feb and Mar failed to lift the share price.
GHG
Member
American corporate culture vs Japanese corporate culture in a nutshell.
Got to keep those stock numbers pumped at all cost, even if it means bending/evading the truth.
Bernardougf
Gold Member
Sony/Playstation excells in making good video games and games ... MS/Xbox excells in making PR Bullshit to spin its failures... I'll take the first option any day
gaming_again
Member
It was me. I've had a second wind with my XSX recently. I've barely touched my PS5 for weeeks now.
I really don't like that guy & he needs to go
Killjoy-NL
Member
Fixed
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GHG
Member
monthly active devices.
They must be m.a.d. right
All your switches, playstations and steam decks belong to us.
Robb
Gold Member
mansoor1980
Gold Member
great spin by nadella.............
