Most of the games has an open world dynamics in some way. But should every game has to be open world?
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
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No. And the reality is that most games are not open world. Even if being open gives gamers more of the world to explore in, open isn't necessary for a great game or a great story. I think the writer already knows this though.
Nope.
Really depends on the game
I don't think games like Call of duty would benefit from it, and I hated Uncharted doing it
no
it depends how the devs make the game. a bland open world is just as bad as a very strict and bland linear game.
I'd disagree that "most games are open world." Most games are not open world. Massive AA and AAA RPG style games are mostly open world and for those I think it makes sense.