10 Years Ago This Month: Microsoft learns a lesson about playing old games it would soon forget, and Activision doesn't see digital distribution as being a big thing in the next decade.
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
Today, Koei Tecmo announced its financial results for the full fiscal year 2025, related to the period between April 2025 and March 2026.
TNS - NCSoft CEO admitted that AI is rapidly becoming a core part of game development, but he added that it cannot replace what makes games fun.
To be fair, there are also human made games that release and lack any fun at all either.
Guild Wars 2 been playing for 14yrs, 1st beta. This is just one company I support, Arenanet and NCSoft, even though I torrent, there are a few PC companies I will buy from. "PlayStation’s Horizon MMO spin-off, Horizon Steel Frontiers." I feel this will be good, NCSoft is a good developer/publisher.
It’s a tool. Use it elevate things and get it done faster. I’m sorry but not every game made by humans is good. If this can help things, then I fully embrace it.
BC us awesome! Glad MS decided to give what many gamers wanted.
Man Sony fanboys just hate the fact Ms BC is better then Sony and it free lol
I like how this author talk about how Ms flip flopping on Bc but not mention anything about Sony flip flopping on PSnow was once one of their so call mega bomb at last year E3 and according to Sony now nobody care about Bc anymore.
Instead of letting me buy my old games again, please let me use my old already bought physical copies.
Goes for both MS & Sony.
I really don't enjoy Backwards Compatibility that much, but it's nice to have it anyway.
Even with PSNow, I fully expect PS5 to run PS4 games since the architecture will be the same this time.
On Xbox, it goes without saying with the UWP initiative, everything would run on everything that is Microsoft devices.
With a digital only future looming BC should become standard on consoles in the near future, hopefully.