For the first time, Google is positioning itself as a competitor to the likes of PlayStation and Xbox with its new offering, Stadia, a cloud-based gaming.
This offers a number of benefits to gamers, particularly new ones, who'd prefer to avoid purchasing often-expensive hardware, such as consoles and gaming PCs. But the shift from locally owned hardware and locally stored software to an entirely cloud-based model puts gaming squarely in Google’s wheelhouse: data collection.
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
TG writes: If you’ve ever wanted that chaotic, large-scale modern warfare feeling from Battlefield but in full VR immersion, Forefront delivers it better than anything else currently available on Quest.
The ISP's who have data caps and the consumers who purchase and don't understand how much data will be sucked up quickly causing extra charges.
What kind of gamer would spend so much on a service like this where your entire library is always at the mercy of the unforeseen factors associated with cloud gaming
A service like this looks more beneficial to every party associated with it other than the consumers themselves
Not buying into this crap so not interested.
The people who don’t buy this will benefit by saving money.