Microsoft, to cut short, just took care of the usual business. This conference was nowhere near as good as last years–to which it acted as just a footnote. The company made some bold moves and promises last year, which gamers loved. This year, all it did was remind them that they were being kept. This was both a good and bad thing, as it meant that nothing original or too exciting really happened. But hey, Keanu Reeves showed up, and that in itself is kind of a reward.
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.
The games were good but the way the paced it was mediocre.
-there should have been an emphasis of gameplay demo for at least 2 games.
-Gears 5 needed a campaign gameplay reveal.
-Halo infinite's trailer was just for the fans but it looked like it was about to reveal gameplay.
-No new IP was a disappointment (Bleeding edge leaking as a shame and took the shock value away)
-Fable 4 not showing up was honestly quite surprising considering Playground games have a clip on twitter showing what they called a new AAA RPG studio.
These press conferences are all hype... Did Xbox do well, yeah, it doesn't really matter if it all spoke to you, there's something for everyone in this one and it's fine... but really all these "press conferences" are "fine" not great, not awful, the people trying to rate them are just trying to find ways to get clicks.
With all the rumors that were going around, this conference was quite over hyped.
Basically mediocre in my opinion