It’s no secret that when it comes to to the major gaming consoles, people will usually bring up Nintendo last when talking about online multiplayer. Their initial focus was never online connectivity since their consoles were frequently aimed at families who could sit at home and play together. On the modern market, however, online multiplayer is important so gamers are able to play with their friends without having to be in the same room. Nintendo seems to have finally started to catch on that the online aspect of multiplayer is very important to their players, and with their upcoming paid service, this could mean we’re going to see even more from them on the Switch.
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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should have focused on an actual Ethernet port to make online competitive play some what normal
They should focus on making an online service that is on par with its competitors. Free games that disappear in a month, locking voice chat and matchmaking to an app on a smartphone rather than just bundling in a headset with the console, and no Ethernet port on the already expensive dock are not ways to do that.
They already said they are.
No, it really shouldn't.
F**K online MP.