Given the state of global power markets, Microsoft has placed a greater emphasis on energy saving as of late. One of the recent updates to Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S consoles included a revamp of the power settings menu, giving you a better visual representation of how much energy you're likely to save while switching between power saving and standby modes. If these recent Xbox Insider Program surveys are to be believed, Microsoft may be exploring ways to take it a step further.
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 don't think I'd ever be interested in 'downclocking' my console (and experience) to save dollars on my energy bill. That being said, energy bills aren't that high here, I know some countries over in Europe seem to have crazy high costs.
"Microsoft is exploring energy-saving graphics features for Xbox games"
more like:
"Microsoft is exploring ways make multiplatform developers be able to run new games on its heavy burden obsolete Xbox Series S console "
Seriously people you have no idea how technically MS screw up big time the whole game industry (specifically Multiplatform games developers) with the S, the more the xbox S sells the harder is going to be for MS to pull the plug from that console, and they will have no other way but to limit or constraint the Multiplatform developers to adapt games to that thing, this will last completely to this generation. Ever wonder why Starfield latest trailer looked so effing bad ?, well how about you look to the Xbox S side , just saying ;)
Neat idea but no gamer is gonna use this.
Xbox already has an energy saving setting for their 9th gen consoles. It is called xbox series s 🤣