2010 has been a year of game industry transition. High-definition consoles have risen to prominence and both Sony and Microsoft have started motion controller phases, extending their platforms' lifecycles. Nintendo, however, has lost some of its lead, with Wii not seeing the sales it once had and DS feeling pressure brought on by iPhone and iPod Touch.
This year saw a flood of creative independent games on PC and iOS devices, whereas the consoles were a realm of refinement rather than bold new ideas. Make no mistake, there were tons of good games on every system, but a feature like this exists so that 1UP can pick a winner. So let's get started.
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."
I don't game a lot. I don't own an xbox 360 and was given my Ps3, both of them, for free. But, with that said, can someone tell me how the xbox 360 gets a B+ and the Ps3 a B?
I don't remember one game, other than Halo whatever, that stood out in their line up this year. The Ps3 had like 7 game changers come out.
This is lunacy.
The psp and ds had way too low scores. The ds and psp deserved an A- on pure awesome games alone......and considering the 3ds is coming out very soon everyone better be on notice
The pc no way in hell deserved the highest score and neither did IOS......
They rated everything on being "shocked" and features.
The only things relevant are the games which seemed to be the least important thing to them.
Bizarre scoring there. The list of Wii and PS3 games was varied and interesting. The 360's was stagnant and predictable - and yet it gets the highest score of the 3.
Not sure at all how the PC can be scored so high either. It had some awesome games, but nothing better than the consoles.
I’d give the 360 a B-, Wii a B and PS3 a B+... I understand why they gave the PC an A-, but I’m just not a fan of MMO’s or RTS’, so the PC didn’t really offer me much at all this year. Oh, and the PSP deserves way more than a C+... it was actually one of it’s best years yet with Peace Walker, VC2, God of War and, of course, getting even more PS1 classics to play on it.
Wii gets an A for 2010. :)