MIcrosoft has made plenty of questionable decisions in the past, and they've likely tricked themselves out of billions already.
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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Just no. MS has never had the console crown. They did well when no one was there to oppose them for 1 to 1 1/2 years. But they got caught and lost to Nintendo and Sony. What crown? What win? They never won. Anyway...
Game Pass is a double edge sword. It draws gamers to the games for cheap but not the console or actually to buy the games. Also, they're helping Valve's brand and Nintendo's brand by putting their games there as well.
A lot of the things on the list do make sense on why MS is flailing around trying to get their footing. But mobile phone failure and windows 8 have nothing to do with Xbox or console gaming.
Blu-ray was correct as Sony predicted that game size would get bigger and need a medium to hold it like CD and DVD did for PS1and PS2. Which is why they waited. HD DVD was only used to slow Sony down and waste Xbox gamer dollars because MS never believed in physical discs anyway and were all about pushing digital. MS then pushed Ultra Blu-ray as a talking point this Gen. But it's a nothing burger as games aren't taking advantage of it. We won't really need a larger medium until next Gen. It shows how Sony is in touch as it applies to games. And MS thought gamers cared for better looking movies on a gaming platform.
MS has the potential to save their brand with the moves they made before next Gen. But taking the crown when they can't even sell worldwide like Sony and Nintendo is unlikely. They're lucky there's still fans left. Only scenario they got to help is if tariffs hurt the sales of PS5 if things get worse because of Chump. And they get more sales in America. But, like PS3, Sony still might end up outselling them at a higher tariff price because of the games potential. We'll just have to see.
Things that are wrong here:
1st: The Xbox One reveal. Fair point, it was a mess.
--> They have learned from it though.
2nd: Always On DRM. No fair point. It was part of the Xbox One reveal and it never actually happened.
--> They have definitely learned from it, since it never happened.
3rd: Used game sales. No fair point. It was part of the Xbox One reveal and it never actually happened.
--> They have definitely learned from it, since it never happened.
4th: Bundling Kinect with the Xbox One. No fair point, it was part of the Xbox One reveal.
--> They changed it! How can you say they have not learned from it?
5th: PUBG port. Nope, it sold like 7 million on Xbox.
6th: The Duke Controller. Yeah, kind of. Some people loved it, some people hated it.
--> They totally changed it though, even mid-gen at that time.
7th: RRoD. Yeah it was a mess.
--> They changed it and sind 2007 (!!!) VERY few Xbox consoles had any major issues.
8th: Xbox One Arcade. Nope it did very well and helped MS to sell a lot of consoles last gen.
9th: Xbox One Elite controller. WTF? It was doing very well and had to fight shortages. There is a reason that there is a 2nd version of it.
What a weird article...
My only issue is I can’t ever play games offline. I’m originally from a third world country with very poor net that I sometimes visit to spend time with family. I always bring my PS4 with me but not my XB1 since it’ll be useless there.
non of these companies learn anything they just say sorry and then do it again treating companies like humans just sets us all up for disappointment sony, microsoft, nintendo, EA, Activison, capcom, Ubisoft and all the other game companies only do right by the consumer when it also benefits their bottom line otherwise they don't care what we think. We rarely get a consumer victory and when we do you can always scratch just a little below the surface to see exactly why they are doing what they are doing.
These companies don't care about us, accept it and you won't be disappointed in the future...