BGR's Zach writes: "It’s still early, but for me the Switch has already succeeded where the Wii U failed miserably… and yet I can’t help but worry that the biggest problem with the Switch is still Nintendo itself."
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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How can "Nintendos biggest fans" already be "tired" of their new console, when it's guaranteed that they bought Zelda with it, which at minimal is prob about a 50-hour long game.
You say that Nintendo seems to have "rushed out" their new console (while that may be likely) This article was also "rushed out" in order to capitalize on the Switch hype.
Yh I'm not tired of mine at all. There's absolutely tons of epic indie games , so I doubt its ever going to collect dust for me.
Looking back (I'm literally looking at my Wii now), Wii's success was not about games, as we gamer think. It is the hardware itself. For the great majority of customers, they only know 3 games: Wii Party, Wii Sport & Wii Fit. It is the unique control that sell Wii, not the games.
So the question for Switch now is: can the unique control of Switch be turned into sales?