GameDeveloper: "Unity's merger with IronSource has some developers saying they're planning to switch game engines. We ask them why."
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.
Bullshit. Switching engines is VERY expensive and no serious studio will do it.
Upon switching, your advanced knowledge of one engine becomes a beginner level in the other, low intermediate at best. Now multiply it over a team. And also consider that most SDKs are only compatible with these or those game engines (mostly Unity tbh).
Again, not a single serious studio will do it.
The CEO is John Riccitiello, you know the one who thinks your a dumbass for not adding in micro transactions. Nuff said.
I don’t doubt some may try - and a few succeed in jumping ship - but what’s the alternative for decent 3D dev tools. UE, partially owned by the CCP? It’s making a living under the creeptacular rule of EA’s ex-COO who ruined their reputation now at Unity’s helm, or Tim Swiney - take your pick. The others like CryEngine, or ID Tech, are seemingly out of reach for most devs since they aren’t often used in any mainstream sense. Anyone developing something not 3D focused may well switch, since there are lots of good alternatives in the 2D realm.