The rumors of the Playstation 4 Neo, an upgraded well Playstation 4, are running rampant around the net now. There are people on the other side of the next generation of gaming, the Xbox supporters that are split on the chance that Microsoft could be planning an upgrade too. Some Xbox fans think it would …
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
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While I'm not entirely against the idea I do see this as being pretty hard to pull off.
For one...what's going to be upgradeable? Everything? RAM, CPU, GPU, sound card? Each one has it's own implications in performance but at the same time makes developing for everything much harder.
Hows a game perform if you have the base CPU and RAM configuration but have the most power GPU module? Or what happens when you have the best CPU with the most RAM but the worse GPU?
This also limits what games could potentially do. If you have the weaker CPU that means that you can't have as many NPC's (i.e. A.I. and physics) on the screen as the person that has the stronger CPU. But what if your GPU is too weak to handle the graphics of the more numerous NPC's with your stronger CPU?
No, the only way I see this working is if the CPU, GPU, and RAM are all a single unit. You have the sort of console motherbase that house's the optical disk drive, the hard drive/SSD storage devices, sound and video outputs, device inputs and outputs, and have only the GPU/CPU/RAM as a replaceable package.
Almost like the n64 Expansion Pak. A cartridge that you can pop in or out. It would be cheaper as well. Let's face it, if the new consoles have HDMI 2.0 or DP 1.4 that covers 4K for a while or even 8K if you have the newest SuperMHL 8K connector. If they have the latest storage interface (like M2 or PCI-Express) then that makes them future compatible for a WHILE...years and years.
No reason why the console "base" couldn't last a couple generations with just a hotswappable processing unit.
So yeah, I can see it being a possibility. A very real possibility. It just all depends on HOW they do it.
I doubt it being as Sony/Microsoft and Nintendo want to sell new boxes every few years
I think that what Sony - might be - doing with Neo is an adjustment for 4k when this console gen will likely go on for another six years at least. That it may just be the PS4 slim, and it becomes a arguable if older models are impacted by newer demands.
As for the console gens that follow this one, MS and Sony both are likely moving to where systems are little more than satellite boxes. Have some measure of offline functionality but otherwise be very online dependent. Sony certainly with their streaming service, making it available on TVs and tablets, while MS is positioning the Xbox brand as a PC app or a component for Windows.