While revealing a new partnership with SD card maker SanDisk, Nintendo has also revealed that, moving forward, some Nintendo Switch games will require a MicroSD card in order to experience the full content of certain upcoming games.
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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Geez just when you thought Nintendo couldn't further nickel and dime its consumers...
Those NS game cards can't hold as much data as Blu-Ray discs. An NS game card's capacity can go to 32GB max while Blu-Ray can go up to 50GB. This discrepancy is why this SD requirement for certain games is happening in the first place.
Something similar happened on Vita as well, like for example with FFX/FFX-2 HD where both games were readily available on the Blu-Ray disc on PS3 & PS4 while on Vita only FFX was available on the cartridge while FFX-2 had to be downloaded.
If you thought games coming on multiple discs in the past was bad enough & cumbersome, wait till you get accustomed to this new structure on your hybrid console.
On a side note I always knew that NS's meager 32GB of internal storage would bite consumers in the ass. Also unlike with Wii U, you can't connect an external HDD so you are at the mercy of however big SD cards get at the time.
This becomes even more jarring when you realize that SD cards commonly don't have as attractive as a gigabyte per dollar ratios that HDDs tend to have.
I feel like this is largely an issue with digital collectors which makes sense, I own about 6 Switch games and some digital ones, and I haven't run out of space yet, and I only have the 32 gig internal storage and a 4 gig SD card, but then again i'm a physical collector so that helps.
That said, while I do think it's lame of Nintendo, I don't think it's too much of a big deal considering you can get a 32 gig card or more for way less than $20
200 GB MicroSD greatness