Jez Corden suggests Microsoft is developing Xbox emulation tech for the ROG Xbox Ally and other Windows devices, aiming to bring native Xbox gameplay to PC.
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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I really have to wonder why.
Let’s be honest, there isn’t a single Xbox Series game that doesn’t have a PC version at this point. Every major release from this generation is already on PC in one way or another. So when we talk about the Series consoles, the only real thing Microsoft needs to do is expand the Play Anywhere program. If the games I bought on my Series S became playable on my PC or on an Xbox-branded handheld like the Ally, that would practically be the same thing as running Xbox games.
Things only start to get complicated when we look at the older Xbox consoles. But even then, there are ways around it. The Xbox One has a very small library of exclusives that never made it to PC. Realistically, the only two big ones are Halo 5 and Rare Replay, and both could easily be ported over. The rest are mostly Kinect titles, which no one seriously expects to work on PC, delisted games like Forza Motorsport 5, or failure titles like Crimson Dragon.
If we go further back, the Xbox 360 and the original Xbox have a much larger catalog of exclusives. But even on current hardware, backwards compatibility is already very limited. Only a small number of games actually work, and even fewer are still available for purchase. Considering that modern Xbox systems are now fully digital, I really don’t see Microsoft putting that much effort into making those older titles compatible.
Don’t get me wrong, I would love to be able to play Otogi and Blue Dragon natively on my Windows PC. But I really don’t think there are enough people who would care to justify it. Especially when Microsoft can make those games available through streaming instead.
Very nice
Okay well this is good news for those worried about compatibility if true. Also, it means that the future of Xbox will be PC. I am interested to see how they scale performance. And how they deal with physical media.
So Finally Gears 2,3&3.5, Fable 2 and Halo 5 on PC?