Following the closure of Lionhead studios and Press Play, Steve C talks about Microsoft's 1st party studios and discusses whether they have an issue with them.
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
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."
Today, Koei Tecmo announced its financial results for the full fiscal year 2025, related to the period between April 2025 and March 2026.
They lost touch with MS studios in order to put windows 10 gaming into something.
What first party studios? Sorry couldn't resist.
MS is an IP farm at this point, they are more focused on the IPs than the studios that make them. The majority of the few first party studios in MS' stable are all solely dedicated to a single franchise, and third parties are rotated in to create new IPs...the issue is they haven't done especially well this gen in terms of sales. I personally think the key to growing quality first party IPs is doing it with first party developers. Both Sony & MS could do better in those arenas this gen.
"Even the most ardent Sony fan-boy would have a hard time arguing against the fact that Microsoft’s console has the best exclusives"
Not really. Sony has been able to get plenty of exclusive support on their console of the first party and third party variety that. There have consistently been more exclusives released monthly on PS3 & PS4 than on 360 & XO lately. Just look at the release schedule and the amount of games that get announced and you'll clearly see more games arrive on Sony's consoles than on Microsoft's consoles.
I love when your on a obvious fanboy site and they only list 1 freaking exclusive from the competition. Really???? This can go either way but I'm just saying. At least try to list more games. Didn't even mention one of the highest rated exclusives this generation. 0_o I don't even need to say which one. Interesting article I guess bit I really hate when people do that.... On either side....at least be objective.