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After more than a year that they could not come to a new agreement and let games being removed from Chinese market (except Diablo Immortal), Blizzard Entertainment will return to China via Xbox consoles. Back in November 2022, when Activision Blizzard were still independent, could not reach a new business agreement beyond the availability of Diablo Immortal (a whole different agreement) and let January 2023 as the official month of most of Blizzard Entertainment games to be retired. This week's announcement is basically a Microsoft Gaming led gaming success in China gaming market, that includes to explore bringing new NetEase games to Xbox consoles and other platforms. NetEase hasn't been in the bench despite losing a powerful partner like Blizzard (which rumors saying that in part, is was due disturbed communication with unpleasant misunderstandings for then CEO Bobby Kotick), as buying and investing in Westerns gaming studios. For immediate effect, Chinese gamers will expect the recovery of access of previous available titles like World of Warcraft, Hearthstone, and other titles in the Warcraft, Overwatch, Diablo and StarCraft franchises. Of course, Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer considers this agreement a new Xbox victory for bringing more games to more players around the world. #Gaming #GameNews #youtubegaming 🕹 🎮

Sources at Square Enix told Bloomberg that the company moved Yu Miyake from #DragonQuest producer after 32 years & reassigned to Mobile business. Reportedly, SE wasn't amused on internal delays of development of next main game. #Gaming #GameNews #youtubegaming 🕹 🎮

Local media in Japan reports that a suspect of treating #Nintendo employees & fans and let the suspension of all esport activities at the Nintendo Live Tokyo 2024 was arrested. Identity & rationale were not published yet, but it was suggested/speculated that the individual is at its 20s and it is actually a government official in the Ibaraki Prefecture & he began tracking/interfering with Nintendo's business for some unknown benefits. #Gaming #GameNews #youtubegaming 🕹 🎮

In a more than upbeat presentation than the "dire" scenarios that many outlets were rumoring, Microsoft Gaming finally came forward about the future of #Xbox and while acknowledging that all the mentioned things in the special Xbox Podcast episode were planned as early in December, it doesn't need to be taken a change of plans at all. Xbox Game Studios will be launching 4 unnamed games for Playstation 5 and Nintendo Switch and it was hinted that 2 of them are more than a year since launched, are community-drive games and no, is not neither Starfield nor Indiana Jones and for now they are not committing on more games. First party Xbox games will be on Game Pass with no End of date, including new launches and actually, new games will be releasing on Day1 and Game Pass is an Xbox service exclusively. Activision Blizzard King Games will be coming to Game Pass starting with Diablo IV on March 28th. Phil Spencer interestingly acknowledged that there is an importance of exclusive games for platforms, that includes Xbox, but he foresee that the strategy will be small part for the industry in between the next 5 to 10 years. Regardless of that, Xbox President Sarah Bond assured that Xbox is not abandoning the hardware business and actually, next-gen Xbox is already in development and we are inbound for some news this Holidays season but, Microsoft Gaming did not acknowledged the future of physical games while addressing Xbox's view on gaming preservation. Tomorrow I will be given my takeaways in a new gaming podcast episode. #Gaming #GameNews #youtubegaming 🕹🎮

At their Q3Y25 conference, Sony acknowledged on the gaming business (Playstation), that #PS5 hardware sales decline to the point to update the outlook on 21 million more units to be sold by EOY, down from 25 million. All this despite there were profit of Christmas season sales. Also, mayor Playstation Studios' games launches are not happening before 04/2025 while there are title currrently on development. For that reason and that Playstation 5 is entering its 5th year, that the company considers the current generation in its "latter days" and focus on producing high-quality productions and producing live service games." Back at Summer 2023, during the failed FTC demanding a Preliminary Injunction against Microsoft buying ABK, it was revealed that both Sony and Microsoft considered talking on next-gen and what's next for their respective gaming main product by 2028. #Gaming #GameNews #youtubegaming 🕹🎮

Nintendo announced that #NintendoSwitch have surpassed the 139.36 million unit sold and overtaking DS family as the best-selling video game system of all time in Japan. During their quarterly conference with investor, Nintendo claims that Switch will be main business for 2024 & didn't mention anything about its successor, slated to be released this year and reportedly, key partners are already developing games with dev kits. During the three months until December 31, Nintendo reported an operating profit of ¥184 billion yen, slightly down on the same period last year but still, went better than analyst expected. Analyst are impressed on how Nintendo have a steady business with an aged Nintendo Switch ecosystem & limited hardware compared to PC and gaming consoles, all this without major price cuts. #Gaming #GameNews #youtubegaming 🕹🎮

Microsoft reported its Q2 2024 performance with $62 billion in revenue & net income of $21.9 billion, both a raise respectively of 18% & 33%. Microsoft Gaming & #Xbox were up 61% of revenue on content, 3% in hardware & 49% in gaming revenue YoY. And yes, this is the first quarter that includes Activision Blizzard. Meanwhile other segments of Microsoft were up except Surface business which went down by 6% YoY. #Gaming #GameNews #youtubegaming 🕹🎮

Activision Blizzard run an additional layoff aside from Microsoft Gaming's last week, this time impacting 83% of its #Esport business letting go 60 people. The now Microsoft-owned conglomerate feels that 12 people is enough to operate taking in-context that both Call Of Duty and Overwatch League are now operated via outsourced companies. #Gaming #GameNews #youtubegaming 🕹🎮

In midst of uncertainty about Valorant esport 2024 season, Riot Games confirmed running layoff afffecting 11% of workforce or letting 530 people go. TLDR & the same with other companies/industry, they over-hired & have business redundancy. #Gaming #GameNews #youtubegaming 🕹🎮