Kotaku writes:
"Last week, we ran a series of polls, asking you for your thoughts on everything from console ownership to piracy to your favourite gaming franchises. We now have the results.
You'll see the key findings represented here. It's far from everything, I know, but this is the best stuff, presented in a way that won't force you to crawl through an endless sea of pie charts and statistical findings.
For those who love a spot of crawling through an endless sea of pie charts and statistical findings, though, don't worry: we'll still be publishing the full results later this week.
We had between 20-30,000 people taking part in each question, making this one hell of a sample group. It's not indicative of the entire gaming community, of course, as nothing ever could be; what it is is a sample of the kind of people who read Kotaku. People like you!"
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."
Proud to be part of the 25% who own all 3 consoles!
360 failure rate at 66% is pretty crazy, not to mention the number of people who have pirated PC or console games.
Obviously the results are going to be slightly skewed due to the fact that most people who read gaming news online probably lean more towards the "hardcore" crowd, but interesting regardless.