With E3 a bit lacklustre on the VR front, Gamescom was going to have step up. So naturally Oculus had a whole two videogames on its booth. VRFocus' Kevin E tries to wrap his head around that, in this week's VR vs.
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
The charity event will be streamed live from Gamescom in August.
If Oculus is going to compete with psvr, it's gonna have to step up. I love my rift, but we need more flow of games. Take note: chronos, lone echo, edge of nowhere, etc. were brilliant!
First off, E3 was not a disappointment. Keep hearing this from people expecting a stage presence when it's impossible to convey vr across television screens and monitors. That's why Sony had journalists, gamers and developers try the new games on the show floor where it makes the most sense. As you need to experience vr in person and not watch someone else to get it. Then those same individuals go back and tell others of their experience. Like "JOURNALISTS" are supposed to do.
And games like Torn, Creed, Tetris Effect, Ghost Giant, Gungrave, Stormland, Wolfenstein, Astrobot, Firewall Zero Hour (that just released to great reception), Blood and Truth. Megalith, Space Pirate Trainer, Evasion, Beat Saber, The Persistence, Vacation Simulator, Bow to Blood, Star Trek TNG DLC, Echo Combat, Prey. The Elder Scrolls Blades, Trover saves the Universe.Transference, Deracine,etc. Don't let these article writers sway you in thinking there was nothing there for console and PC.
Oculus wasn't really there as they have their own conference that presents their products called Oculus Connect. A lot of developers and manufactures are going it alone and not presenting at E3 so that they can control the message and have the public's focus all on them like Apple does and Nintendo. But a lot of the games above are coming to Rift and the Vive that were at E3.
There were games presented at Gamescom. Just because a game came out on one system than another doesn't mean you discredit the game. Moss came out on psvr. Now PC gamers get to play it. Beat Saber came out on PC. Now psvr players get to play it. There's nothing wrong with that. Expecting tons and tons of games to be announced is ridiculous entitlement.
I expect games shown at OC5 and The Tokyo Game Show and PSX. with games announced in-between those. Just have to have patience.