2021 was a solid year for Microsoft. But how can it improve for what lies ahead?
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
The charity event will be streamed live from Gamescom in August.
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."
They only dominate with hype and marketing , they always win in that regard but with games they lose and that’s why they are in 3rd place every gen.
What will they dominate? lol....I just hope they can produce something that can get me to turn on my Series S or use my Xbox Game Pass sub. Things like Halo and Forza or old, tired and should be shelved for 10yrs or more cause those just ain't doing it and I already play all the multiplatform games on the better platform and better online service. So lets hope Microsoft can focus their expectations on just doing much, much better and forget about dominating anything because they aint!
Games.
I don't see how they will dominate in 2022 when there hasn't been any hype for any AAA exclusives releasing for 2022 except for Starfield & there hasn't been any gameplay shown including that it isn't releasing until late next year. Crossfire X looks decent but that's it that's been talked about so far for 2022 when it comes to AAA exclusives. It's been my first time ever in the XB ecosystem for a few weeks now & the only current AAA first-party exclusive I've been playing is Halo Infinite. For me it seems so far the XBSS will be my second console to go to..to play XB exclusive games whenever they may release where my PS5 will be my first to play exclusives including AAA multiplats.
Microsoft can release all the updates and services they want but as its always been, games will be the deciding factor.
Lets wait and see. 2023 and 2024 do look they are going to be big years for Xbox but 2022 still looks a little barren to me.