Polygon: "Sony went into E3 2018 knowing that it had a strong software lineup of exclusives and VR titles. Everyone knew that the company was going to focus on just a few games, and images on social media of what looked like a church before the show began proved that Sony was going to try something interesting.
It didn’t ended up working out very well, with a painfully long pause after the first demo, but the rest of the show more than made up for it. Let’s take a look at what Sony did well, and explore where it stumbled."
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
Spiders: "We're going to cut straight to the chase so you're not left wondering: After a long period without clear answers, we have received confirmation that Spiders is being liquidated.
What does it mean? This means the company as a whole no longer exists. We'll cease our functions immediately. The planned DLC will release via Nacon, and then-- well, that's it.
We're sorry that it's come to this and would like to thank each and every one of you for your support over the years.
If you have any questions or run into issues with your games, please contact Nacon directly as we'll no longer be able to reply."
Today, Koei Tecmo announced its financial results for the full fiscal year 2025, related to the period between April 2025 and March 2026.
The games they showed were awesome, but the format was very messy.
The games were beautiful. I didn't really care about the format because I watched it late and fast forwarded anything not gameplay haha. They didn't really have much variety though. All the first party games except for Spiderman seem like 3rd person story based adventure games that focus more on scripted animations than actual gameplay. Don't get me wrong, I do enjoy those kinds of games but I much prefer games with deep systems and addictive gameplay. It was so refreshing when Kingdom Hearts came on the screen to get away from all that dreary drama lol.
Spiderman looks very fun though. Bravo Insomniac.
At least this isn't another clickbait article. Sony wanted to experiment and get artsy, and most of us gamers will not appreciate that. We didn't take time out of our gaming schedule to watch musicians. But the games...holy crap. Who ISN'T going to buy at least 2 of those 4 games they highlighted?
Games were great. Format was awful (conceptually I understand what they were going with but they didn't deliver it properly). While this year was missing the usual shock/awe, I believe it made up for it with more in depth looks at 4 upcoming games, 3 of which we hadn't seen anything on prior.
Certainly not their best e3, but Sony has a consistently high bar set for themselves. If possible, I'd like for them to return to their older format where it's in one location and we don't have 15m intermissions thrown in.
The games were great as always. No complaints there. I just wish there were more of them.
The bigger problem was the show itself, and all the filler and stalls for time in an already short show. If you're going to do a short show that's fine, but make it tight and keep the flow going. Nintendo's Directs are shorter, but they're great because they're straight to the point with no filler.