Asa from Gameondaily discusses the potential impact Microsoft's newly announced service, Xbox Games Pass will have on the console and PC gaming space and compares the service to PlayStation Now, PS PLUS and Xbox Games with Gold.
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
Today, Koei Tecmo announced its financial results for the full fiscal year 2025, related to the period between April 2025 and March 2026.
TNS - NCSoft CEO admitted that AI is rapidly becoming a core part of game development, but he added that it cannot replace what makes games fun.
To be fair, there are also human made games that release and lack any fun at all either.
Guild Wars 2 been playing for 14yrs, 1st beta. This is just one company I support, Arenanet and NCSoft, even though I torrent, there are a few PC companies I will buy from. "PlayStation’s Horizon MMO spin-off, Horizon Steel Frontiers." I feel this will be good, NCSoft is a good developer/publisher.
It’s a tool. Use it elevate things and get it done faster. I’m sorry but not every game made by humans is good. If this can help things, then I fully embrace it.
"Games With Gold was only introduced as a direct counter to Sony" and this writer must not see how PS+ was introduced as a counter to MS gold. Gold offered discounts on games before PS+ was even announced. Sony could not charge for their online service because it really wasn't worth paying for. Gold started on the og xbox and really improved when it hit the 360. sony was starting from scratch and to try and charge right from the start would have been suicide.
Hence they came up with their members only service PS+. Members were given discounts on games and other media as a means for them to make some $$ back on offering free multiplayer. Something they obviously started charging for with the PS4. The decision to add in freebie games came much later. Unlike GwG (on 360) PS+ games are only good for the life of the membership. That is something MS has adopted on the XB1 but they still let you keep and play the games on the 360 if you cancel your membership.
PSNow offering PS3 games in a separate sub is one thing but I do believe you need PS+ if you wan to play any of the multiplayer portion of those games. Just like how this game pass will still require Gold in order to play any of the multiplayer games on xbox. you may not need Gold or PS+ to just simply get the basic features of PSNow and Game Pass but it certainly helps to get the most out of what each offer.
It's not a comparable product to psplus but more a direct comparison to PSnow. They are both sub based rental services. One just offers better value for your dollAr at a cheaper cost. $9.99 for previous and current gen games a month vs $14.99 for just previous gen.
Both services have games that come in and out, so I would say they are directly comparable
The fact that you don't need to be a Gold member is a plus but also let's me know that this service is a direct competitor to PSNow. I wouldn't be surprised to see this on PC and other non gaming devices from MS down the line.
So far this is looking like a pretty good deal, and can only further boost a backlog of games I have yet to play.