"AMD tries to design GPUs (graphics processing units) for the mainstream segment of the market, then ratchet up performance by adding GPUs rather than designing one large, very-high-performance chip."
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."
i think they are doing it right, this is the smart/efficient way to do things for both the consumer and the producer
How is this the right way?
Just adding more and more chips is no way to advance technology. It's a short cut to more performance. Anyone can add 2 chips of their best "large, very high-performance chips" onto a pcb. And it's actually a bit of a scam. Because it makes many people think their going to get double the performance because it has 2 chips. When in reality it's only going to be a roughly 10-25% performance increase over the single chip version.
AMD/ATI and Nvidia do the same things. It's only that Nvidia has a little better architectures and likes to over price their products because of that.
While ATI lowers their price as much as they can, because they know their cards aren't quite as good as Nvidia's. So it makes ATI look like they design for the mainstream, when in reality the only thing they do different is price it lower so they can actually sell their cards.
This is obviously a stab at Nvidia's upcoming GT200 chip that is a bigger chip size than usual. But if Nvidia wanted, they could put 2 GT200's on a single card and be doing the same thing as ATI lol. (Which they already did with the 9800GX2)
Glad this story shows views from both sides tho. Would of liked to hear Nvidia talk more on the issue, tho they made good points.
It's like with CPUs. Making one mammoth CPU draws more power, heat, and is inefficient. it's like trying to approach the speed of light. it's exponentially impossible, and this is why CPUs just stack cores. GPUs shouldn't be any different.
Im a Nvidia fan i will wait for the 280 card but the ati cards will have excellent performance with a much better pricing model.