Now that the dust has settled, it's time to look at the week's biggest winners and losers.
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
Thanks to the slip-up of an artist working on the title, we now have more evidence that a new Injustice game is in the works.
All available May 5.
Its like the final episode of the Sapranos. You gonna go to make a comment and when you click add th-
I think the only game here for me is Nine Sols. Was always interested in that game.
Good month for me, I wanted that particular footy game and thought it might be due. Anyway who cares, shame about the site I'll miss the comment sections. All the best everyone.
Microsoft has the best conference, overall, however that is just in terms of presentation. In terms of games, this year's E3 just kinda came and went and I'm not rushing to Youtube to rewatch trailers or constantly refreshing gaming sites to look for new info. It came and went, there were some cool announcements and some nice in depth looks at Smash and the titles from Sony. Nintendo pretty much advertised 2019 E3 with all the missing titles this year and I'm expecting Sony to show off more of their core titles as Gamescon. Microsoft is clearly in a rebuilding the brand phase and that is commendable.
I think Bethesda did really well.
Since I only watched the MS, Sony and Nintendo my opinion will be based on those three.
Nintendo had some good games but it seemed like it was over before it started. I was really hoping to see some more from them as I have always enjoyed their approach to presentations for E3 in the past few years. But this year was underwhelming, the Mech game and Smash were stand outs but I was really hoping for some surprises like Mother 3 (finally). Unfortunately their presentation lacked and I heard that they will have some more announcements over the next three days...hopefully.
Sony's presentation was also a strange one and even though it was good it wasn't exciting. I've said in the past that games should be shown with actual gameplay at these events, unfortunately the games Sony showed all had a common theme that doesn't make for great watching, sneak, hide, sneak, hide, walk, sneak. With the exception of Spider-Man this is pretty much how a lot of Sony's game played out during the presentation. Ghosts was also underwhelming, the graphics looked great but for me being a sci-fi/fantasy guy there just wasn't anything too appealing other than the violence. But, Spider-Man on the other side was fantastic that was definitely a game I would get 1st day.
Microsoft hands down took E3 this year. They had the most to prove with the over whelming criticisms they received. They addressed all their problems on stage, acquiring more first party studios and announcing another console was in development. The games they showed off were much more impressive with their presentation too, Dying Light 2 and Cyberpunk instantly comes to mind. Their ID@Xbox game montage was very good, Gears 5 looked really good and Gears Tactics was incredible (even if only for PC), and there's a skate board game which was surprising since I had forgotten this use to be a thing, plus Battletoads, finally. MS pretty much nailed the format down this year.
Lots of games to be excited about. Most of which are multi-platform. Shadows Die Twice and Kingdom Hearts were my favorites of all shown. Really like the direction Assassins Creed is heading too. Doesn't feel like an AC game, maybe more of an RPG but I think this is good. That series needs a shakeup.
sony had far better games %70 of the games microsoft showed i can play on my ps4
None were great, Sony did that lil bit better, Ninty only had smash and Xbox had a ok E3