E3 is over, maybe in more ways than one, but that could be an entirely different article. I’m here to analyze what I saw after watching the big two go head to head in entirely different fashions. We saw a tale of two platforms last week, and responses online are varied, interesting, inflammatory, and more. While my personal opinion is that Microsoft crushed it – many others believe that there was no comparison to what Sony put forth, and still yet some hold out hope that Zelda will be the sole reason to reinvest in another Nintendo console at launch. My hope here today is to shine a light on the seemingly less popular opinion that Microsoft had not just a great showing, but one that didn’t just pander to their audience, and instead gives owners or potential buyer’s faith that the behemoth has a solid course in the coming years.
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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Sony puts on a great show, but the kind of entertainment I'm looking for is in the form of a game, not a yearly press conference.
"didn’t just pander to their audience"
Do you mean give gamers what they want??
Fan service = showing games for a game console
'Exclusives, in general, are a pretty awful thing'
Sounds like everything in the opinion piece is trying to up one conference and downplay the other. Yea I guess thats what an opinion piece does these days ; trying to push an opinion and personal preference
If by 'bold future' you mean making your current console absolutely obsolete by both taking away all its exclusives (despite what this author claims, if I don't need an X1 to play it, IT'S NOT AN EXCLUSIVE, although nice back-peddle by then claiming "exclusives are bad m'kay) and then really killing it by announcing a new console (or half announcing), then sure, a bold future indeed.
In reality it was MS admitting defeat. They're saying, 'ok Sony rekt us this gen but we might make money off our software by putting on PC'. The author claims MS are being 'forward thinking' by putting their games on PC too but he neglects the fact the most of the greatest games of all time were exclusives to one platform, that is what makes them so good.
Ugh, I could go on but this article is basically telling you "hey, gamers, why are you getting excited about games? You should be getting excited over a new plastic box that may be a big a failure as the last one and it certainly won't have exclusives". I mean, just build yourself a PC in 18 months if that's what you want, it's that easy to beat this guy's argument.
This article is garbage, this website is garbage.