The PC has fallen from it's once glorious position as the platform from which all innovation sprung. The PC was the home of the first curved surfaces (Quake 3), the place where all console FPS now get thier "cutting edge features", no more. The PC has largely been reduced to a port platform save the occasional mainstay title such as Sims, StarCraft 2, and WoW.
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."
PC gaming doesn't need to be saved. It's just changing (again) like it has in the past. I doubt the author does much PC gaming when they say things like "The PC has largely been reduced to a port platform save the occasional mainstay title such as Sims, StarCraft 2, and WoW".
The author does make a good point that while console gamers are going ga-ga over $10 map packs and $20 mission packs, PC gamers have been modding their favorite games for over a decade....for free. PC gaming has always been the #1 spot for content. Period.
PC gamers are not dumb enough to buy 3 maps and new character outfits for $10.
I blame them.
DLC wont save anything, consoles or PCs
They both NEED full games to stay alive, DLC is just a nice incentive to continue playing
if bethesda released the 3 dlc packs as a retail box, one you could install and play without having to have gfwl online to even access content you paid for....then it'd be good, but as of now dlc sucks, that's just one example but there are many