Content IP is at the very center of PlayStation, Xbox, and Nintendo (and every other games company). Easily accessible, monetizable interactive entertainment is the main avenue for IP but it's not the final destination. The most valuable IP can be adapted to all forms of media.

Microsoft is hiring experts to help transform Xbox's finances. This may involve new revenue streams like ads. "We are seeking a Gaming Finance Transformation Lead with deep integration prowess to drive transformation initiatives with urgency..." https://t.co/LQzHeImhdJ

Turn it into a permanent haunted house attraction with zombie actors instead.

"These and many other issues have caused pain and stress for your employees. Our experience at the company has been one of burnout, job insecurity, health issues, and the failure of a game that many of us have put years of our lives into."

To summarize yesterday's post about Xbox: Microsoft have made Xbox invaluable to the games industry (games, services, distribution, publishing, etc). They aren't SEGA--it's so far beyond that now. The real question I have: can Xbox become valuable to its own brand again?

Now that Saint Pio’s Feast Day is behind us, we’re turning our attention to our next big event: A visit from the habit of Saint Pio! Join us this October 11th through 14th, as we welcome a delegation of priests from Our Lady of Grace Capuchin Friary in San Giovanni Rotondo,

I absolutely know the economics involved in this. Physical games aren't cheap to make, and aren't getting any cheaper. It's not like how I'm thinking, I know that. But that's just how it feels, and physical games from Western companies often feel like token gestures.

I know it's not true, and that creatives absolutely want to give you as much art/content as possible... But as a player, it does sometimes feel like companies deliberately make physical releases bad so that we'll just stop asking for them.

So...there's no map is there. https://t.co/Sf7Txw4tkI

During today's Project Amethyst video, Sony's Mark Cerny specifically mentioned that AMD's new tech addresses very important spec for handhelds: power consumption. "There's a multitude of benefits for this, including lower power consumption..." https://t.co/6kYgqQu8f4

"Maybe Microsoft doesn't understand what it's doing and is just trying things." This might be why.

Fryer says this because she, and the other founding members of Xbox, "had no idea what we were doing" when they launched Xbox.

"It could also be that they're just incompetent, that they just don't understand what they're doing and they're trying things." That's from a founding member of Team Xbox.😬 https://t.co/PC6VWjJh0D

Battlefield 6 gives you +5% every match on PlayStation 5 if you party up with 2 or more PlayStation Plus subscribers.

Also quick note on comments about Xbox following SEGA's path and leaving console production. SEGA financials: "For fiscal year 2025 (ending March 31, 2025), Sega Sammy Holdings reported ¥428.9 billion ($2.89 billion) in net sales." Xbox can't operate on this budget.

Sony x AMD's new Universal Compression might be the most impressive part of the presentation. PS5's compression tech opted for speed. PS6's compression tech adds efficiency to the formula. Memory bandwidth is a key constraint that game devs face when working with consoles.

Call of Duty will suffer. Minecraft will suffer. Xbox has some of the most valuable games on the market. The Xbox organization as a whole will bring in a lot less money. What does less money mean in today's environment? We've seen what happens.

If Xbox consoles are pulled from market, it will have a cascade effect that will lead to: • Mass layoffs, less games being produced • Content and services being significantly scaled back The devaluation of Big 3 member w/ trillion dollar market cap isn't good news.

From Project Amethyst to a shared vision, I welcomed my good friend and fellow gamer @cerny to Austin, where we reflected on the future that @AMD and @PlayStation are shaping together, the future of gaming.​ Together, we explored the breakthroughs in hardware design, the rise of

Hard at work with @JackMHuynh, great tech is on the way! @AMD and @PlayStation

Microsoft deliberately disrupted its video games business by introducing Game Pass. That disruption has now led to a lucrative $5 billion service that's apparently profitable. But more importantly, it made Xbox users -highly- embedded into services.

Two main reasons Microsoft can't stop making Xbox hardware: 1) Xbox console users are consistent spenders 2) Game Pass loses its most effective playerbase The reality is that Microsoft has not found a viable home for its games business that can exist without Xbox hardware.