Neil writes: "Designed for Xbox, the NACON Pro Compact Controller looks to work as a kind of halfway house between the standard Xbox Wireless controller, the highly customisable Xbox Elite controller, and those retro affairs of yesteryear that weren’t able to utilise the magic of wireless capabilities. It’s a decent effort by the NACON team too - especially when you consider the price."
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
TG writes: If you’ve ever wanted that chaotic, large-scale modern warfare feeling from Battlefield but in full VR immersion, Forefront delivers it better than anything else currently available on Quest.
It’s a decent effort by the NACON team too - especially when you consider the price?
It doesn't look bad and as far as I know there is a lack of good third party controllers for the Series S|X. But I feel the ergonomics are a bit too inspired by the DualShock 4. And because of that it would had make much more sense to go with symmetrical sticks instead.
For PC however it's a very hard sell. With options like the T4 Pro, PG-9139 and the H511 being cheaper alternatives with more features.