When Microsoft first announced that they would be bringing their highly acclaimed Xbox Live online service to Windows, there was much promise and hope among seasoned PC gamers as well as current console owners who were looking to extend their gaming onto the computer. After all, the community that had been created across the Xbox and Xbox 360 was top notch – and while services like XFire, Ventrilo, and Steam offered a way to keep in touch with friends on the PC, there was no centralized, integrated friends list, chat, and accomplishment interface across all your games.
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."
It's good they did that.
3 of my cousins have a ps3 and they dont have an idea about HD and blue ray.
I always knew the service would not do so well on the PC as compared on the Xbox 360 because, there are tons of other service providers and free services which allows for online gaming.
The quality or the service offered may not be on the same level as the live gaming experience, but however, it comes with the best price a gamer could ask...FREE and it gets the job done.
yea it's hard for a pay for service goes up against a free service. It can have all the bells and whistles you want but they are competing against something that's been free for way too long for people to want to pay for it now.
Plus it seems that most PC users don't want to play with any console owners. Kind of like how gamers of old (now self proclaimed hardcore) don't want to play with new gamers (hardcore called casual gamers) but that's just my two cents
I guess MS.. The PC world is never going to conform to MS's locked down Live service where they control every aspect and then charge you for the priveledge.
It's a shame that they've compromised their 360 platform at the same time by doing all these 360/PC release's that make the 360 look like a poor mans gaming PC. It's all about the dolla dolla bill ya'll! PC gamers have seen XBL and they know if they let MS have success with this they will be paying for avatars, wallpaper and a ton of other DLC. PC gamers won't have that and I'm glad they don't.
has free online multiplayer not to mention all the Gold features for free.