the-pi-guy said:
They're expecting hardware to almost double and subscriptions to double. That year would be 3rd year probably for a successor, so probably would be basically peak hardware sales. Subscriptions seem ambitious. They also had gaming at 18billion in the chart for 2022. 18 billion + biggest hardware year (perhaps with Series X/S continuing to sell at a discount) + Activision + continued gamepass growth... Maybe. But it kind of feels like subscriptions everywhere in the games and movies spaces have stagnated. So that feels mighty ambitious. |
It's FY2022 instead of 2022 so that would be July 2021 - June 2022, if I have my FY's correct?
I don't know when these charts were made but they better have included ABK, Lol.
ABK pulls around $8bn revenue a year so that's the baseline of what to add onto Xbox's yearly revenue which is around $16bn a year now.
I think they should chill a little on the $36bn goal, Lol.
shikamaru317 said:
The revenue expectations for Platinum seem a bit low for Wolfenstein 3, though I suppose it could be a new IP from Machine. However, considering Machine is only 157 people on LinkedIn, I just don't see how they have the staff to release two games back to back one year apart like these financials show is the plan, unless Machine is one of those studios like The Coalition that is greatly underrepresented on LinkedIn. The only other possibility I can think of for Platinum would be that it's the Roundhouse first game, but then Roundhouse seems quite small, and is reportedly working with Arkane Austin to fix Redfall and finish it's DLC characters, so they may not have the staff to be working on Platinum either. Platinum seems like a real headscratcher, unless it is Wolfenstein 3 and alot of the work on it was already finished from 2017-2019 (when they got the Indiana Jones license and postpoined Wolfenstein 3), giving them a foundation to quickly build off of and get Wolfenstein 3 out just 1 year after Indiana. The Tango JRPG leak came from a source that got some things right in the past, such as Kojima's Overdose game and the Baiten Kaitos remaster, so I suppose Tango could be split in two again just like they were when making HiFi and Ghostwire 1 simultaneously, except this time Ghostwire 2 and a smaller JRPG. Probably Arkane Lyon leading in order to make that release schedule as there is too small of a gap between Redfall and Dishonored 3 on that schedule for Austin to lead, though Austin could have joined them after Redfall released to make it a collaborative effort. I think they'll get around to the Quake reboot eventually, probably next after Doom Year Zero. 2024 is indeed looking to be a wild year if nothing is delayed. 2024 for Xbox/Bethesda is looking like Starfield DLC, ESO expansion, Oblivion Remaster, Indiana Jones, Flight Sim 2024, Towerborne, Avowed, Forza Horizon 6, Hellblade, and Ara. The original leaker, who was said to be a disgruntled former employee at the studio that Bethesda is collaborating with to remaster Oblivion, said that when he left the studio they were aiming for late 2024 or early 2025, with the decision on date being partially based on if they decided to stick with the current plan of making the game more of a remaster, or deciding to make it more of a remake with more improvements. So if it stayed a remaster, late 2024, if it was expanded into a remake, early-mid 2025 I guess. |
It could be them being more cautious after the bomb of the last two Wolfenstein spinoffs and Tbh Wolfenstein wasn't a huge seller to begin with.
That leak is still weird, how recent could it have been? There's no chance Bethesda doesn't know whether it's a remake or remaster at this point in time and I really don't see how moving from a remaster to a remake only adds 6 months of development time...Remake would surely take a lot longer than a basic remaster.
