from eXputer "Google had all the money and resources to make Stadia a success. But they played their cards wrong. Not giving the developers the creative freedom and forcing them to make games that would make their platform look good instead shows the mentality that brought the end of a potentially decent cloud gaming service."
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
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."
Today, Koei Tecmo announced its financial results for the full fiscal year 2025, related to the period between April 2025 and March 2026.
~ Everything.
For something to go wrong something has to go right in the first place
Nothing about Stadia was ever right
The article goes deeper but the main issue was the business model. The core strength of streaming content as proven by other media is how cheap it can be for the final user when compared to the traditional alternative. However, Stadia's approach was anything but that. On launch, you had to buy actual hardware to even be able to play and then you also needed to buy the actual titles many of which were older games resold at full price.
Google did sort of address that last issue when they revamped their subscription to also give away games with its payment. But that was still not the ideal business model for a streaming service and the damage was already done.
Google is your first problem. Solely steaming is your second problem.
Not sure how Google is as a company in terms of dealing with its employees, but Stadia was really running with a recipe of disaster right from the get-go.