With Microsoft continuing to acquire game-name studios, strike surprising deals, and build its library for Xbox Game Pass, it makes the combo xCloud
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
Thanks to the slip-up of an artist working on the title, we now have more evidence that a new Injustice game is in the works.
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."
I haven't seen much hype for Xcloud, there's hardly anyone discussing it outside of a few forums
Traditional console gaming is still the way to go
Let's see...yup. Puff Piece for game pass.
"It's amazing! PlayStation gamers have to buy games like baseball while we get games for *free.* Well, not exactly free but subscriptions don't cost any money." /S
Continuing...
"It's so great that Microsoft found a work around after trying to give Apple the shaft on royalties on 3RD party games, DLC and micro transactions on their own platform like Epic. Xcloud allows you to play games anywhere for that same *free* price.There's nothing like it anywhere(REMOTE PLAY.) I don't think there's any service or feature that allows you to play games for the price of nothing.(REMOTE PLAY). Paying a few dollars a month to stream a small, curated list of games is so much better than the games you already own for FREE."/S
There's more...
"The Nintendo rumor is awesome. I don't know why a company wouldn't allow game pass on their platform that will hurt Nintendo's game sales, push gamers to not buy Nintendo's games over renting. Why would any company deny the VALUE of putting millions in Microsoft's pockets."/S
And it continues...
"Did I mention game pass? With Xcloud, it will benefit the game industry greatly for everyone. I didn't mention Sony but Sony would be ridiculous in not adding game pass to PlayStation consoles. Did I mention game pass?"
Thats a matter of opinion. Do you want a sideboard full if things youre only going to taste, or a main coarse youre going to feast on? Game Pass are a bunch of games "Jaffe"-like gamers are gonna play for a little bit and then never finish. If developers just wanna sell their games, then Game Pass is for them. Me? PlayStation releases games that I set apart several days where I lock myself in a room with a DO NOT DISTURB sign. I cut myself off from society and live an experience from start to finish. I really dont see that happen too much with Game Pass and if I were a developer, and my games ended up on Game Pass, Id be insulted. If Im spending my life developing games and losing all that time with my family, then Id want someone to actually experience what my time and hard work went into and for developers that work with Sony, they tell people: "I worked at Sony because I had freedom to create" while those at Microsoft, Activision, EA, ya know all said they just showed up for s check, there was no atmosphere condusive to that sort of environment, that it was a business rather than a studio or a lab provided by Sony willing to take risks, pehaps not so much anymore under the Jim Ryan/Herman Hulst regime.