TweakTown writes:
"If you've recently found yourself thinking that you might just bite the bullet and buy a new high-end graphics card, news last week that new models from NVIDIA could be coming as soon as July may make you rethink that decision. The day before the 9800GTX was officially unveiled, rumors started to leak that NVIDIA was already preparing a new line-up of high-end cards under the 9900 naming scheme, and that the 9800 series would be discontinued in July.
Word is that we will see a similar setup to what we currently have now; a 9900GTX sporting a single core and a 9900GX2 that will carry with it two GPUs like the current 9800GX2. It's clear that NVIDIA wants to continue to be on top of AMD when it comes to speed, but these constant refreshes with minor improvements are coming to the point where it's just plain ridiculous."
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."
"...but these constant refreshes with minor improvements are coming to the point where it’s just plain ridiculous."
I can't agree enough with that statement.
Yeah wtf is going on here. They prettymuch have backtracked since the 8800GTX. Cheaper and more efficient parts is all we've gotten for a year and a half. Should've seen like a 256 stream processor, 1GB GDRR4 card from them by now.
thats how technology works. no company releases the absolute cutting edge as soon as they come up with it. digital cameras could do 10 megapixels 3 or 4 years ago, but no sensible company would release it because costs would be ridiculous and it might take several more years of r and d to come out with the next big thing.
i still haven't upgraded from my 7950gx2. Not only is it fast enough to play everything i like to play, but, every time nVidia releases something there's a new one coming 3 months later. The 9800GTX isn't even much of an improvement over the 8800GT. You can SLI 2 8800GTs for the price of one 9800GTX, and the 8800gt's would KILL the single 9800GTX. Also, the 9800GX2 is worthless. Ugh, i want nVida to stick with a card for a year like they used to.
I am so goddamned f*cking tired of the stupidly insane rate at which graphics technology is evolving....it's just not f*cking fair.