
Twinfinite writes "This year was a close showdown as Microsoft delivered one of the biggest E3 conferences in years for the Xbox brand and Sony took a deep dive into some tantalizing exclusives. We're ranking every conference from worst to best to find out who won."

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.

Today, Koei Tecmo announced its financial results for the full fiscal year 2025, related to the period between April 2025 and March 2026.

For Southeast Asia, new price changes.
Prices effective starting May 1st, 2026.
Looks like PlayStation took a hit with Marathon and is now quietly adjusting prices worldwide to recover the losses
The price increases are due to the RAM demand associated with AI and the US-Iran war. You can look to any business news website and local news to see that. Heck, even the 2026 Asus Zenbook Duo I've been eyeing has faced delays and has had a price increase of $400; that laptop has two specs. Asus is doing a staggered release with per-orders for the lower spec now and shipping in May and pre-orders for the higher spec that I'm eyeing starting in June. Basically, all computer manufactures are affected. It'll most likely start affecting smart phones too if it hasn't already. I can't remember the last time any major console maker (Nintendo, Sony, Sega, etc) increased the price of their console mid cycle outside of Microsoft just to make more profit.
For me, Microsoft's showing was very impressive. Sony's exclusive games appeal to me more, though.
Microsoft took it this year for me by a whisker. We know Sony are smashing it but their conference wasn't good. Nintendo's Direct was awful though. Definitely not 3rd for me.
For someone who doesn't care much for Xbox exclusives, I thought the company presented themselves quite well at their conference.
Microsoft looked great IMO and came out and did exactly what was required of them. I actually thought Sony's was a little underwhelming in terms of an E3 conference. The games did look great, though!
Personally, it comes down to games I'm interested in. Sony's lineup this year topped Nintendo and Microsoft for me, hence why Sony's conference won the show imo (despite that flow-killing intermission).