Jacob St-Amour from Link-Cable Writes: "E3 is just a week away and there is so much to get excited for. From games, consoles, new and returning franchises, the game trading show has it all and no company had a bigger showing last year than Microsoft. They truly delivered on one of the best press conferences that were filled to the brim with many new titles for every gamer, which puts quite a lot of pressure on trying to topple this monumental feat this year, but there is much to like on how they have positioned themselves this time around. With the hopes of classic titles making their way back in the favour of gamers, potentially showing off new acquisitions as well as the company’s upcoming new device in “Project Scarlett”, Microsoft has all of the tools to outdo their last year’s E3 performance."
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.
14 Xbox Game Studio titles and all the big 3rd party titles will be shown at Microsoft's conference. With the announcement of Xbox Game Pass for PC we have publishers lining up to jump on board seeing how it was such a huge success on Xbox.
Project X Cloud powered by Microsoft's world class Azure Cloud has 3,500 titles ready and lets not forget the star of the show Xbox Anaconda.
Phil Spencer is the best ever
Everyone wants MS to bring back the classics in full AAA for Banjo, Conqueror, Blinx etc. I don't think these games will be big sellers nor big AAA maybe AA. With that said MS needs to focus on new games and franchises. Those games are relics of the past. Perfect Dark and Mech Assault I can see those games being AAA development if they rebooted PD and completely revamp MA. Other than that MS needs much, much needed new blood.
I think the schedule of release will be roughly like this:
The Initiative- New game in 2-3 yrs with a possible reveal in 2 yrs(2020 or 2021)
Compulsion game- New game in 2-3yrs (2020 or 2021)
Inxile- Already have Wasteland 3 schedule for 2019 and have wasteland 1 remake(2020 and an unannounced new game in works.(2021 or 2022)
Obsidian entertainment- The Outer Worlds will be out in 2019 and their new game should be for another 2 yrs in 2021
Undead Labs- State of decay 3 is already in the making and should take 2-3 yrs.(2020 or 2021)
Ninja theory- Already planned to reveal next year possible scheduled for 2020 or even 2019 considering they would have been in development for 3yrs since Hellblade.
Playground games- Already hard at work on open world game since they have 2 teams of 200 people. Possibly reveal in 2019 and release for 2020
343i: Halo infinite is definitely releasing in 2020 possible alongside the new Xbox similar to how the original Xbox was released with Halo.
The Coalition: Already have Gears 5 and tactics scheduled for 2019 and their next project should be for 2022 going by their 3 yr dev cycle.
Turn 10: Forza Motorsport 8 2019
Rare: Having released SOT in 2018 they will continue to support it for the Year or two and then announce their new game scheduled for 2020 or 2021
2019- Crackdown 3, Ori and the will of the wisp, Gears 5, Gears Tactics, Battletoads, Wasteland 3(not exclusive) and The Outer worlds(not exclusive)
2020- Most likely year for the new Xbox and alongside it: Halo infinite, Ninja theory's game and Wasteland 1 remake and Forza Horizon 5
2021- Obsidian's new game, Forza Motorsport 9, Compulsion's new game, Playground's new game and The Initiative's new game.
2022- Rare's new game, Undead labs, Gears 6, Inxile's new game, Ori devs and Forza Horizon 6.
Show the new Xbox and let it be great.
It should be pretty easy, just focus on announcing new games that they should have had in development for quite a while.
Microsoft's E3 2018 didn't really have much, Halo and Gears were nice, but those are franchises we've seen numerous times.
Sure they confirmed that Next-XBox was coming, plus some new studios had joined their development family, but they didn't reveal any new games from those studios.
MS needs to rain in the nonsense Phil Spencer chat and show at least a few new titles, with full gameplay reveals from either new IPs or classic franchises that haven't had solid series entries for ages.
Even if we just got Fable or a new IP from Playground Games and the game Ninja Theory are working on that would be better than last year.
Halo and Gears have been at pretty much every Microsoft E3 this gen, while they need to have great showings from those games, they need to take a back seat to whatever the other Microsoft studios are working on.
New IPs and games that haven't been given new entries from less used franchises is what needs to be at Microsoft's E3 this year.
If they don't have new games to announce from any new studios, then don't bother talking about those new studios at E3, it would be boring, just like their E3 2018 was.
Show great looking games, reduce the chat, unless they're ready to show next-gen as a proper reveal there's no point having that bull XBox One X style announcement we got in 2016.
Make the show about the games, maybe XCloud details, but keep the chatter to a minimum, gamers don't need to hear Phil or other people waffling on like they have a tendency to at these things.