Xbox has produced a steady stream of innovative new ideas that benefit players since Phil Spencer took over Microsoft’s console division in 2014. Now Microsoft wants to improve gaming in Windows and it’s seeking your help. Your ideas could make Windows gaming better for all of us.
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
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How much are they going to pay? If they aren't paying then the title should read, "MS wants to Exploit You" . The F'n joke is that either MS doesn't know what the customer wants or wants free ideas, because you know MS can't afford to pay.
The Windows 10 Store right now sucks, it doesnt feel like a gaming store and I want Microsoft to really improve it and be like Steam.
Just let your PC idle for 5 mins after a restart/update, then just play. No need to get a windows gaming edition :)
why is it so hard for them to make windows games have more of a system like xbox. It should be separate from the store as its killing the product.Noone wants to touch there games because of that. If it was its own thing and had all the fuctions like xbox or steam it would do well.
Sort out the store mine disappeared a while ago then came back as a single colour screen. Was hoping to buy Gears 4 but that’s gone tits up.