— Nintendo Enthusiast:
EA is one of the biggest third-party companies in the gaming industry. If it abandons the Nintendo Switch, how would it affect the system?
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.
Nope ..
while it doesn't *need* it, it will definitely help the public image of the Switch. If Nintendo starts getting some of the larger EA brands and it's not just simply Madden and FIFA, then sales of the machine aren't going to suffer as a result.
More support = more appeal at the end of the day.
It'd be great if NS could get as much third party support as it can
It needs something other than the mainstream offerings from EA, as well as other third parties.
Mainstream offerings being there is fine and all, but the majority of the fanbases for those titles are already set on other systems, and won't get a Switch for them.
If EA and the others want to make an install base for themselves with Nintendo fans, they need to start releasing core-gamer-minded games, other than their mainstream stuff, on the Switch.
Whether those new games are exclusives or multiplats, they should be designed with the Switch in mind; once they've done that, if they make said games attractive enough, maybe more gamers that aren't into Nintendo consoles will come around to becoming multi-console owners as well.
As things stand right now, they aren't going to be doing anyone any favors by releasing late ports everywhere.
Much as I love Skyrim and much as I hope it sells well to the Switch crowd, who by and large love action-adventure games, even I have to recognize that that's probably not what's going to move the Switch further into the spotlight.
Nor will games like FIFA and CoD.
Nope well it will only benefit Nintendo if EA keep supporting them. However, I think there is still a risk of some devs dropping support if sales are bad of there games like the Wii U.