The Xbox Enthusiast team discuss the Microsoft Conference for E3 2016.
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.
Imo
EA = D- (The only thing stopping me from an F is we finally got a glimpse of ME, and Star Wars games announced, and free EA Access for the weekend)
Bethesda = C+ (Liked the new Prey, but I don't care for TES or Fallout and liked Dishonored 2's gameplay)
BF1 = A+ (Looks like all the good things about COD WaW with BF4's gameplay running on the Battlefront engine)
Ubisoft = F (All the games they showed looked lame imo, and lack of Splinter Cell, Rayman, Prince of Persia killed it 4 me)
Xbox = B+ ( I want to try Forza now. Scalebound, Halo Wars, Sea of Thieves, and Gears 4 + Scorpio announcement, Cross Platform MP between PC and X1, Cross Buy, and the new Slim model looks sick, was considering trading in my original one for a slim, but after the immediate Scorpio announcement, I will wait for that to drop instead :D)
Sony = A+ (Crash, Resident Evil 7 announced and back to horror finally, God of War looks dope af, and Horizon looks cool, and holy crap, SPIDERMAN, freaking Yuri Lowenthal as him too, I didn't think that space game was actually going to be CoD, it looked great)
I imagine Sony and Capcom are saving Resident Evil 2 Remake for PlayStation Experience.