Are you ok with no Call of Duty 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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It definitely wouldn't hurt now would it?
Yes! They asked the same thing about the WII U, Seriously how did that turn out?? Although people banged on about the original WII being home to shovelware, that shovelware made it possible for the WII to crack over 100 million consoles sold! And Nintendo's 1st party studio's don't and can't churn out enough games to supplement lack of 3rd party support.
Why people don't see and realize it's not about power, sales or features that a console has! It's about the overall game support the console receives that determines its viability in the market.
Examples of good game support that made consoles market viable in no particular order:
Super Nintendo, Nintendo 64, Gameqube, WII
Xbox 360
PS1, PS2, PS3, and PS4
All those consoles were market viable, because they were supported universally! All manner of support 1st, 2nd, 3rd and Independent party support. And for those that started lagging in support overall sales suffered behind it.
Putting things in perspective consoles that weren't market viable of mention were:
Sega Genesis, Mega Drive, Original Xbox, Xbox 1, WII U.
And although the consoles that weren't market viable sold to various fanbase sizes, they lacked crucial support in various area's whether 1st party, 2nd party or 3rd party support! Some in more area's than 1.
How many times is this question going to be asked
Japanese Exclusives or Multiplat
Indies games
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Expect nothing more.
The Switch Event was in Japan for a reason.
Yes and no.
Yes, it needs third party games.
No, it doesn't necessarily need Call of Duty, which doesn't sell well on Nintendo console whether the install base is big or small, as Wii and Wii U proved, and that likely goes for other games like them from many Western devs.
Switch is likely going to get enough RPG'S and other big games from Japanese devs to make up for it in the long run, though. The list of supporting devs and some of the already-announced titles, like a new Tales Of title and the Mana collection amongst others, bodes quite well for its third party game selection going forward.