Microsoft has been attempting to shift the focus of this generation’s console war for 12 months now, from refusing the release hardware sales figures to the launch of the Universal Windows Platform, Windows 10 Xbox App and Store, and launching previously Xbox exclusive games such as Quantum Break and Forza Motorsport 6 on PC. At E3 2016 The Xbox One and all associated with it simply became Xbox, a platform that encompasses console, PC and mobile.
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
Thanks to the slip-up of an artist working on the title, we now have more evidence that a new Injustice game is in the works.
All available May 5.
Its like the final episode of the Sapranos. You gonna go to make a comment and when you click add th-
I think the only game here for me is Nine Sols. Was always interested in that game.
Good month for me, I wanted that particular footy game and thought it might be due. Anyway who cares, shame about the site I'll miss the comment sections. All the best everyone.
It's not about lossing a console war , it's about changing with modern times. For far to long have people being forced into playing a certain way just for one game they like , Kinect being forced on use , using consoles when people want to play those brand games on a laptop or PC of the choice , 8 years ago the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 lacked in inovation and people where bored of playing the same games that looked the same , felt the same and lack of inovation
Now both Sony and Microsoft are doing that , giving people choice. Who cares who wins a console war , after all only people who really win is players who have a choice? Think about it.
Sales don't matter to the gammer , games matter and more ways to play and how you play from VR , to HD , 4K , 3D.
The company's want to sell their product they both need to re brand to a bigger makert and that's what both Sony and ms are doing. And no one can say it's having no effect , as all we are talking about is project Scorpio and Neo ? It's not going to impact sales until it's out , what its doing is grabbing the attention of the public.
Sony and Nintendo is doing something similar just a lot of salty folks out there coming at Microsoft hard
This is MS doing what they did with Internet Explorer and Zune: integrating it into Windows so that they can claim that it never failed or that it remains popular. The hardware will remain available, but they've all but given up on the idea of appealing to the general consumer or the common household.
They waited till they couldn't win to change the rules.
While PC Gaming was always there to dip in.
If this is the rule them all strategy, they could have done it years ago but ignorantly refused to.
Microsoft could have opted to start more first party studio studios,more features on Xbox Live or purchased a dozen more third party IPs as exclusives from to developers.
But that didn't happen. More hardware clogging the market like in the Sega Genesis days and yearly updates of unnecessary models like the iPhone.
"But but but you have a choice between iPhone 5 and iPhone 6"
"But but but you have a choice between Xbox One, Xbone One S and and Xbox Scorpio"
There is no choice here. VR,DLC,micro transactions,season passes,yearly console updates,3D,motion,4K are all ideas that are destroying the industry not pushing it forward. I don't entirely blame Sony and MS for this however. Apple demonstrated that people are foolish from the start.