VGChartz's Lee Mehr: "Ever since the surprising acquisition announcements at its 2018 E3 event, MS has bolstered its 1st-party lineup and IP portfolio beyond anything previously seen; so much so, you’d need a comprehensive Excel file to compartmentalize everything. Once the ZeniMax deal is finalized, MS could simultaneously make a mascot brawler and mascot racer without needing to double-dip any of the characters to fill out the roster. But what does this increasing cultural hegemony mean for the industry and gamers going forward? Does MS’ pockmarked past reveal a destructive end for all those involved?"
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.
Microsoft purchases Disney. Microsoft purchases Amazon
The amount of studios and teams is ridiculous. And as Phil and Satya Nadella already mentioned, they are not done yet.
I doubt we will see another ultra Megaton like ZeniMax, but smaller developers like Crytek, Asobo or Techland might join Xbox.
They certainly have something good brewing for them, but it will take several years to find what works and what doesn’t. To develop that mutual family ‘ecosystem’ under the MS name where one studio shares coding and developmental tips and tricks on a trustworthy scale that can fully be adopted by the other studio. That’s my thought anyway. For PlayStation first party their studios openly helped Media Molecule, Sucker Punch, and Insomniac. In the end those 3 studios joined the PS family as first party. I hope MS studios does the same and share their talent studio to studio rather than keep their secrets and trying to 1 Up each other as the ‘big’ MS studio
It doesn’t make sense how they can be profitable with the current gamepass model. Apparently $60 wasn’t enough for a AAA game at the beginning of this generation. Now there’s a cheaper option and the amount of money they’ve invested is insane. I bet they got a 5 year plan or something to work in more and more micro transactions. Gamepass will just be the way to get games in as many hands as possible and they really plan to make money in mt’s. There first party games already don’t include the season passes. Games will become more and more bare they just can’t do it to sudden because everyone will raise hell