Okay, Cool's Riley Little writes "Microsoft stands to gain from cashing in on nostalgia with Nintendo fans."
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.
I don’t see it happening
What would it hurt? Viva Piñata is already on the DS... Do it!
If Microsoft wouldn’t put any Rare properties on 3DS, I doubt they’d do so on Switch
Plus every non-Nintendo owned IP that Rare did produce on GBA & DS was published by THQ and not Microsoft themselves. And with THQ going under that puts a halt to this idea from continuing. THQ Nordic is a kind of successor but they don’t publish as many licensed games as THQ used to back in the day.
So the likelyhood of seeing any other Rare games on Nintendo systems is pretty much zero. Microsoft publishing Minecraft on Nintendo platforms is one thing, but I wouldn’t hold my breath for much else since Minecraft was already a ubiquitous brand before the acquisition.
Microsoft said yes to Banjo and Kazooie to appear in Smash Bros is a first step . But full games I doubt it will happen you're talking about a console Xb1 that is starving for first party titles. And I highly doubt Microsoft will cough up those titles to play on a Switch. But I could also be wrong and Microsoft might cough up the games for extra sales and license fees and the games like say Battle Toads Snake Rattle and Roll might sell better on the Switch. Next question would be will Nintendo pay those license fees to have those Rare titles to appear on the Switch.