Cloud gaming services have been attempted by numerous companies over the past decade or more. Remember OnLive? Yeah, that didn't turn out so well. The same goes for some other services like G-cluster and GameFly. But others have fared a bit better, like Sony's PlayStation Now, and Nvidia continues to work on improving GeForce Now (which has been in open beta for what seems like an eternity, never mind Nvidia's Grid service before it). Now Google Stadia is set enter the fray when it launches next month. Are people really looking for cloud game streaming options, and is there that much money to be made?
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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Sony is paying to use Azure to power PSNow and it's rumored that Nintendo will be using it as well when and if their cloud gaming plans are realized, and MS already has the biggest and most promising cloud gaming future with xCloud with the most bang for the buck. Basically if any or all of these services are semi-successful - MS wins.
As for Stadia... Everything we know about it so far sound awful and unattractive and Google has completely failed to create any hype for it what so ever.