![]() ![]() The ESL Impact Season 4 finals will take place at DreamHack Valencia, organizer ESL FACEIT Group announced. ![]() “Alongside Qualcomm Technologies and Samsung, we’re continuing to expand opportunities for mobile gamers by offering more games and more ways to compete than ever before,” said Sam Braithwaite, parent company ESL FACEIT Group’s newly announced Vice President of Game Ecosystems, Mobile. The coming year for the SPS, which launched in April 2022, will include expansion of the SPS into Latin America the addition of a $150,000 standalone event in Mobile Legends: Bang Bang and Garena Free Fire, alongside Call of Duty: Mobile, as the league’s premier Mobile Masters titles. ![]() The Snapdragon Pro Series, the world’s largest multi-game mobile esports league, announced an expanded program and nearly $2.6 million prize pool for Year 2 of competition. While leagues and publishers have toyed with this model through things like Pro View for League of Legends, the interest has been minimal, and nothing short of wide-ranging adoption of pay-per-view practices would stand a chance of shifting consumer habits. The difficulty, much like what traditional media has come across since the internet boom in the 2000s, is putting free content back into an exclusive box – and convincing an audience that grew up with free entertainment to pay for the product. Content creators have recently taken this path for events, with boxing matches between streamers at events like Creator Clash 2 taking place behind a paywall. MSI is scheduled to take place in London at Copper Box Arena from May 2-21.Įsports as a pay-per-view product? It might be a path to profitability, longtime esports caster Erik “DoA” Lonnquist said on Twitter, as the industry continues to struggle with monetizing productions outside of third-party sponsorships and advertising. Riot will earmark 25% of earnings from its Inkshadow event and related skins, and 50% of revenue from its MSI 2023 Esports Premium Bundle, to go toward the pot for the first international League of Legends competition of the year. The approach mimics Dota 2 developer Valve’s system for providing an additional prize pool for The International, Dota 2’s world championship. Riot Games is taking a page out of Dota 2’s book by providing an in-game event pass and skin that will contribute to the prize pool for the 2023 League of Legends Mid-Season Invitational. The message is clear: Microsoft is staking its games business not just on the hardware it’s known for, but on the ability to reach, and monetize, gamers on any device they choose. Microsoft expects to see gaming revenue growth in Q4 and “low to mid teens” growth from Xbox’s content and services, according to CFO Amy Hood, despite ongoing supply chain issues for hardware. Synergies between Xbox, PC and other Windows devices have allowed players to get additional utility from purchases, which while possibly affecting hardware sales has also given the company noteworthy improvements in subscription revenue (about $1 billion in Q3) and record-setting totals for monthly active users and monthly active devices, according to CEO Satya Nadella. Xbox’s gamble on cloud gaming and non-platform exclusive titles seems to be paying off, though the games business is just one small part of Microsoft’s story. However, overall gaming revenue for Microsoft has only dipped 4%, in large part thanks to Xbox Game Pass, the company’s cloud gaming services. ![]() The company’s Q3 2023 report showed a 30% year-over-year dip in PC and laptop revenue for Microsoft, as did devices revenue and Xbox revenue, which are separated out in the report. Microsoft’s latest quarterly results show cloud gaming is leading the way as hardware sales revenue continues to dip. ![]()
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