Derek Labat writes: Nowadays, gaming on the go is as easy as downloading an app onto a smartphone, but there was a time, not too long ago, when if you wanted to duplicate the video game experience away from home, you had to go to an arcade or settle for one of those Tiger LCD games (yeah, have fun with that).
Things changed forever in 1989 when Nintendo released the Game Boy with Tetris as its pack-in game and, since then, they have dominated the market (or longer if you go back to 1980 to include their Game-'N-Watch games). That's almost three decades. Of course, they've had their fair share of competition, the biggest coming from their bitter rival at the time, Sega, in the form of the Game Gear.
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
TG writes: If you’ve ever wanted that chaotic, large-scale modern warfare feeling from Battlefield but in full VR immersion, Forefront delivers it better than anything else currently available on Quest.
I needed 6 AAA batteries just to read this article
Ive got two sitting right here in my family room..shame you go through tons of batteries without the adapter.
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I played it with the ac adapter all the time. It was a great lil console. I still have Shining Force for it sitting around here somewhere.