"Supermassive Games says it wants to end its status as a PlayStation exclusive developer. The firm has a strong relationship with Sony, which has commissioned most of the studio’s titles. The most recent was the BAFTA winning horror game Until Dawn."
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."
Well good for them as that means more people will get to enjoy their games. Haven't played until dawn yet, anyone recommend it?
They are already "multiplatform" as this author puts it. They just happen to do alot of games commissioned by Sony Interactive Entertainment.
I wish them the best.
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Hmm. Sounds odd considering they have had success with their present strategy, I remember another famous developer that was developing only for the Playstation and to some acclaim I might add and stated that they wanted to bring their games to a larger audience - and then promptly went Xbox exclusive. The studio? Insomniac. Their next game was 'Sunset Overdrive' which is not available for the most popular console this generation. So much for bringing games to 'wider audiences'.
Sony owns 'Until Dawn' so we will see a full sequel at some point but probably from one of Sony's own studios (The forthcoming 'Rush of Blood' is for the PSVR). I would not be surprised if Supermassive have not been courted by Microsoft and we can expect a Microsoft exclusive being announced soon.
Good on them. I wish all devs/Pubs would do this. It makes sense financialy too.