We all remember headlines about how console games are dead or dying. Mobile games, PC games, Android settop boxes, virtual reality, and cloud gaming were all going to kill off consoles.
Does the console game business face any long-term threats? Sure. The consoles are by their nature proprietary machines, and they will face the threat of open standards espoused by rivals such as Android and the Windows PC, which can embrace new technologies at a more rapid clip.
But it’s not much to worry about.
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.
Looks like silly articles are not dead yet either.
You could as well write about water being wet.
Of course they aren't.
Surprisingly you still see some outlets proclaiming the death of consoles regardless of the info that says otherwise
bad articles aren't arpproved yet
It was obviously a load of crap when people said consoles would die but i think its worth remembering that many were just expecting the form of the consoles to change and become a tablet that hooks up to your TV. In a sense the Switch is close to that and an example of how a market can evolve.
The idea of calling something dead in gaming is usually meaning that something else is getting big. Usually that thing has very little influence over the others survival which is why mobile hasn't killed consoles or PCs (Many also said tablets would kill PCs but they're still here and I think tablets were on the decline at one point).
The article even shows that the mobile market is a huge one but it's also become a different one. Publishers saw how mobile games can generate such huge profits with a low development budget and wanted in on that which resulted in a heavy push for Microtransactions. Sometimes it works in the case of F2P games but with full AAA releases it's questionable.