Microsoft announced today a new digital game rental service called Xbox
Game Pass. Microsoft boasts that it will contain over 100 Xbox One and Xbox
360 Backwards Compatible games to be played on your Xbox One or Windows
device.
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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I am curious if this will impact their games with gold offerings. Meaning if they will have games overlap or if GwG will have games not offered in game pass each month. OR... if game pass would mean the end of GwG....? That would suck but if given a choice of $10 a month (I know there are cheaper rates) for 4 games (and online play) vs $10 a month for 100 games... I may drop the online play in favor of more games per month.
I don't really play much online anymore anyways. Hopefully there will be a yearly option as well.
It seems like the looked at EA-access and decided to bower some ideas for it, then offer to include other companies. The main differences here being the price and lack of a vault. The added benefit is obviously access to a larger variety of games from multiple publishers.
I would have preferred if they gave a yearly payment option. When you renew, you could pay $130 and call it Xbox platinum... obviously replacing the current Xbox platinum and put gold back to $50.
It's a rip off that's what it is, providing games that you would find on eBay for cheap on a subscription, yes that's right another subscription.
Don't be suprised when they start rolling out new games with subscriptions to continue playing as it's already been discussed. Not a season pass, a monthly fee.