Rumors are floating around that Microsoft is considering retail stores, like Apple's, to showcase its products. The problem is, there's nothing to showcase, and while Apple understands the retail store paradigm and has products to back it up, Microsoft does not.
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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.
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Microsoft won't have place to put XBOX. Good luck Xbox users. Make sure u have AC.
I don't think Microsoft has enough products and the casual appeal to pull this off.The Zune hasn't done very well in the MP3 market,and the Xbox 360 does not have much casual appeal,so I really don't see what Microsoft can showcase that will attract passer-bys.
If they have Microsoft surface on display,maybe that will help keep the stores alive,but unlike Apple,Microsoft don't release new products at the start of each year,so I don't see how the stores can stay open for years and years.....
And it seemed as if they could do no wrong...
in them stores, everyone is gonna go in and play.
they could fill the store with all the extra things you need for xbox360. like hdd, battery pack, network thingy, front panels, headset and hddvd.