Time Warner recently announced that the company intends to consider a usage-based system. This means that users (cable customers) would pay depending on how much bandwidth they use. If they go over the allotted bandwidth on their plan, they get charged overage fees. The system works much like cell phone minutes with customers having the choice of four plans at five, ten, 20 and 40 gigabytes.
The story discusses the impact this could have on XBL, gaming, and movie downloads. But this could apply to all the internet capable gaming consoles and PCs.
Microsoft announced its financial results for Q3 of fiscal year 2026, including an update on its gaming Xbox business and more.
Not looking good. Hopefully Asha Sharma is able to turn Phil’s disaster around.
To me it's still quite remarkable how they can cash-in 5.3bn in revenue in a single quarter, since their hardware is basically dead.
The stock mark is what makes Microsoft remarkable, They have convinced every institutional and retail investor to just keep piling money into them. Like many big tech giants they are just a big growing pyramid scheme. As long as people keep dropping money into ETF's that cover the market Microsoft will always be liquid. At the same time it is completely stifling innovation and competition. People need to start being more discreet in how they invest their money as it's killing the system.
Riiiiight because people will just flock back to them for one or two games per year.
15+ years of bad performance is what they call irreparable in business. It is time for them to sell off the assets and get out of entertainment.
These declines are on the back of extra revenue received from releasing games like Forza horizon 5 on PlayStation. So I’m being sarcastic here when I said they should go back to exclusives. Killing off a revenue stream from Ps5 sales will only make things worse
Thanks to the slip-up of an artist working on the title, we now have more evidence that a new Injustice game is in the works.
Spiders: "We're going to cut straight to the chase so you're not left wondering: After a long period without clear answers, we have received confirmation that Spiders is being liquidated.
What does it mean? This means the company as a whole no longer exists. We'll cease our functions immediately. The planned DLC will release via Nacon, and then-- well, that's it.
We're sorry that it's come to this and would like to thank each and every one of you for your support over the years.
If you have any questions or run into issues with your games, please contact Nacon directly as we'll no longer be able to reply."
This plan is completely stupid I hope all the other Isp dont fall to this bs.
Claiming this hurts *gaming* is a bit unfair. Gaming is actually pretty low bandwidth. The author uses movies as an example, but just because it can be done on a console doesn't make downloading a movie gaming.
That being said I positively hate the idea of metered service.
They better not do this. I hate cell phone plans. They are retarded and stupid. Cable should not do this. I have TWC and I would change in a heart beat if this happens.
if they do this plan i am moving to a FIOS connection as soon as its available in san francisco. they are gonan lose a HUGE amoutn of customers. They only reason they are doing this cause cable internet is hitting its ceiling of performance, its all about FIOS.
This is how all ISP's do it in Australia, except most of them 'shape' your bandwith if you go over your limit to around 64k/128k
It's sad to see the US going backwards and taking these steps as well, I think all countries really need to start thinking about serious investment in infrastructure for broadband