The console and, more importantly, developers don't seem ready.
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
TG writes: If you’ve ever wanted that chaotic, large-scale modern warfare feeling from Battlefield but in full VR immersion, Forefront delivers it better than anything else currently available on Quest.
I wouldn't say rushed but it does seem like some aspects weren't thought through properly.
They rushed the release in order to end the Wii u's tenure early. Games like Mario, Splatoon 2, and Xenoblade should've been launch titles. As it stands now it's Zelda and a couple old Ubisoft ports.
How long has NS been in development? Did account for Wii U not meeting expectations during Switch's creation, resulting in it coming out sooner than expected?
It's clear that they're sticking to the March launch month just so they can look good in front of the investors and stockholders after Wii U had a disappointing 2016 holiday season.
I think the concept of the Switch is what they actually wanted out of the Wii U, which was rushed out rather than the upcoming one. Their development resources were diverted into making Wii U games while the R&D team carried on with making the Switch into what it now is. But it now doesn't have enough games at launch because Nintendo first-party were focused on Wii U development rather than Switch. That's my theory, anyway.
it seems its more or less of a wii u mid console re-release with light updates