Streaming games services will offer an alternative to the traditional console, but will they kill off?
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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They really missed the opportunity to call the article something like "Ex-Box: streaming might end our relationship with traditional consoles"; or "A Switch coming? Wii might not get another console generation after this one". Some cheesy pun with a console name in it.
Also, the death of consoles is always predicted or discussed. It doesn't happen. It won't happen now. Streaming is going to take a -long- time to get good enough, and plenty of people will still want local content. It might end up being a huge new market for average people who only game a little - cheap buy in where almost everything is handled for them.
But until input latency gets even better, until reliable broadband is more ubiquitous (in the States or abroad), until data caps are uniformly removed...until a lot of things, no. Streaming will likely become a viable alternative for many, and a large player in the space, but it won't be killing dedicated gaming machines off for a looooong time - if ever.
Okay BBC.
No it cant. Stadia is a mess so dream on