Sega really should start considering what its customers actually want rather than what'll it thinks will get them the greatest short-term gain.
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
Today, Koei Tecmo announced its financial results for the full fiscal year 2025, related to the period between April 2025 and March 2026.
TNS - NCSoft CEO admitted that AI is rapidly becoming a core part of game development, but he added that it cannot replace what makes games fun.
To be fair, there are also human made games that release and lack any fun at all either.
Guild Wars 2 been playing for 14yrs, 1st beta. This is just one company I support, Arenanet and NCSoft, even though I torrent, there are a few PC companies I will buy from. "PlayStation’s Horizon MMO spin-off, Horizon Steel Frontiers." I feel this will be good, NCSoft is a good developer/publisher.
It’s a tool. Use it elevate things and get it done faster. I’m sorry but not every game made by humans is good. If this can help things, then I fully embrace it.
Sega have always been a company with interesting ideas but god awful marketing and execution, it's a miracle they are still going at this point. They shoot themselves in the foot with almost every release they put out. They almost did the same with Yakuza: Like a Dragon. Just as the series finds a bigger audience in the west, they decide to change the gameplay style to turn based, a huge risk to the series that just about paid off.
It never seems to affect the companies they have acquired though like Creative Assembly and Atlus, they seem a lot more hands off with those studios and let them do their own thing, but games developed by Sega and Sonic Team always seem to come with major issues that stop games reaching their full potential.
There is a lot of talent and creativity at Sega, but it constantly feels like they are being held back by the company.
I just don't get why they can't get Sonic right and stay on a straight path with it
Sonic Mania was fantastic, from the old school level design, to the brand new zones, to even the soundtrack and despite all that they decide not to make a bigger sequel continuing on from Mania.
You have the Sonic Origins collection along with the laughable pre-order fiasco where some things are behind a paywall. Not to mention despite being a Origins collection they are missing some Sonic titles like Sonic Triple Trouble, Sonic Chaos and the like, they could have remade them and made them 16bit, it's not like it would be super hard.
They've never done a remaster or remake of Sonic Adventure / Sonic Adventure 2 despite being loved by fans, not even a sequel.
Yeah we’ve been asking for Sonic Adventure 3 for forever now. At this point at least remaster 1&2 for current gen.