Nintendo is switch-ing things up with 3rd party support on their latest console, the Nintendo Switch. But is it enough?
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
The charity event will be streamed live from Gamescom in August.
Third party is very crucial, we will see how it goes.
How much of a switch could a Nintendo Switch switch if a Nintendo Switch could switch Nintendo's appeal with third party publishers in the console realm
They had just as big of a picture with a similar amount of 3rd party devs who were supporting the Wii U.... then barely did or didn't at all. Ubisoft gets credit because they actually did put out quite a few games, and Activision did put out a Call of Duty, BLOPS2.
Now we're supposed to believe that we're going to get 3rd party support, and crucially AAA 3rd party games from these devs?
Seriously people, they used what looks like the same or very similar borders around the Wii U graphic as well.
All on a device that if it's X2 Parker, will run around 0.75 TFlops? Maybe a bit higher? It could also be 0.512 TFlops that Tegra X1 has, or maybe somewhere in between if it's a custom X1 that is made on the 16nm node that Parker is made on (but not Parker).
Let me put it to you this way. The midrange is now 5-7 TFlops. The high end is 10-11 TFlops. For 2016. It'll be higher for 2017, and games are going to be made with this sort of power range in mind for the next few years.
Not for a new system, starting with 0 install, that is 40-60 percent of the power of the weak XB1 (if Parker), and the games have to be made to work 'on the go'.
If you take a midrange GPU and overclock it by 10-12 percent, which is pretty easy, you can easily gain about 0.7 TFlops.
Which means the overclock of a midrange 2016 GPU might exceed the total power of Nintendo's new console... the Nintendo Switch.
Another way to look at it.
When the Wii U specs were being rumored, it was speculated it would have 1 TFlop of power. Many people then were saying that wasn't enough.
So now the Wii U successor the Switch, four years later, might have less power than rumored power of its predecessor.
Puts things into perspective.
If you want it as a handheld, that's fine. It looks like a great handheld. If you want to buy Nintendo games that's fine. I love Nintendo games.
But I highly doubt it gets significant AAA 3rd party support, and if it did it would be at best, the 6th best version of their game.
It's a Nintendo box, and a lot of people, wanted Nintendo to make something better than a Nintendo Box with power from last decade.
Then have them ask for as much or more than PS4/XB1 and possibly the bundles costing as much as the PS4 Pro which destroys the Switch power wise at being 5-8x more powerful.
Actually no..their list was similar long at the E3 2011..when they promised big third aprty support for the Nintendo Wii U
Maybe Nintendo would switch to become a third party developer.