PushSquare: "In the past few weeks I've endured some utter tripe disguised as journalism. "How Activision can kill the Playstation". "Why Sony should stop producing hardware". Etc. The usual link-baiting nonsense that I won't dignify with the hits the authors so desperately crave. The usual tosh that seems to promote a single-system future. Reading such articles makes me wonder though. Why on Earth would anyone want a single system future?"
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."
What a scary future....the Microsoft EA machine!!
(since it's already number one IMO)
I wouldn't like a single console future.
Playstation/Nintendo-competit ion FTW
No gamer should want Sony,Nintendo,or Microsoft to go out of business. Competition is what drives creativity and produces great quality games. Take that away and I bet the quality games of any of the big three would diminish greatly. This is the main reason fanboyism is garbage and should be kept to a minimum. We should support good products and companies.
Then things will be good. MS can leave for all I care. They brought with them faulty hardware, a pay to play scheme and lack of true exclusives which they can take with them if they leave console gaming. Maybe will give Apple or someone else who will respect gamers to a better degree to jump in.
All MS is good for is riding Sony's coattails. Their biggest innovations have come by way of XBL, which really is just a bloated P2P network. MS would rather rely on 3rd party devs, they don't want to have to dev their own exclusives, they only do it to stay competitive w/ Sony. MS only has like 5 studios vs. Sony's 20+.
Maybe its just my PC gaming background speaking, but online services don't need to cost a fee. It is a selling point of the software, and if the console doesn't support online, it may as well be dead in the water.
Don't be fooled, MS and Sony make good money from downloads, maybe not enough to justify their network expenses, but I don't see that playing a factor w/ MS. Even though they charge a fee for their service, that still doesn't hold them back from capatalizing off ads.
W/ FW3.0 for PS3, its pretty much a sure thing that users will get in-game chat, other than that, I really don't see a difference between XBL and PSN, besides the fact that PSN uses DEDICATED servers.