In this excerpt from Rusel deMaria's new Xbox history tome, "Game of X - Vol 1: The Untold History of Xbox", original team members recount how the Xbox project started -- and how it got its name.
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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What a great start the Xbox had. Halo combat evolved is a masterpiece. still have my OG Xbox. it's a shame ms is sinking this brand faster than a sea of thieves sinking ship.
Xbox started because Microsoft wanted to "stop Sony". https://www.mcvuk.com/devel...
Steve Ballmer was pissed off that Sony rejected Windows as the OS for the PlayStation (because as you know, they think that everybody wants to be on board with their monopoly) and decided to venture into the console biz to compete them out of business, as was their modus operandi. Look where we are now and you can see why they can't compete when it comes to GAMES. They weren't founded by the right people with the right mindset. They don't currently have the right talent and they've only let whatever positive talent they had over the years leave, and not bothered to replace it.
That is the difference between Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft in this industry. The other 2 were founded by those working in the creative/entertainment industry, and Microsoft founded Xbox on an enterprise level, not from a gaming/entertainment standpoint.
Direct X?
The team got the name Xbox because they knew at this point in life there wouldn’t be any games on it to play.........
Thats a joke guys
I want to know how they leased instead of bought certain parts which made them unable to mod the system and reduce production costs. A real no brainier especially considering they had experienced console makers working with them.