Jacob S. from Link Cable Gaming Writes: "This week, many of us will be jumping into the ninth-generation of gaming with the release of the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S consoles. There is quite a lot of excitement building up to the release of these new devices, especially when it comes to its introductory titles, but today, we want to take a moment and look a bit further and see how well the Xbox Series consoles will fair during its time on the market and see what successes and potential drawbacks that Microsoft will be facing during this time. Here are five predictions on how the next-generation of gaming will play out for Microsoft and the Xbox Series of devices."
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.
I'd say this 9th gen should bode much better for team XBox than the 8th. I don't know if it will be as successful as the 7th but it certainly has all the right ingredients for a very lucrative 9th. The biggest ingredient missing from the 8th is already being rectified as we speak. Rolling out some quality titles over the course of this gen is going to be entertaining to watch.
Better than Xbone but nowhere near to PS5
Azure will get better n better.
Microsoft doesn't understand the power of momentum anymore. They understood it for the 360 launch, but have failed these past two launches. You have to start strong and they start this gen with zero games to be excited about.