My name is Frank, and I have a problem. My problem is finishing. Finishing videogames.
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."
In the words of a popular gaming podcast, The author should try sucking less. LOL... OK on serious note, this guy just sounds like he has ADD and easily gets distracted by the next shinny thing. I am sure we all have had spouts of this when it comes to games now and then.
Pretty much every game I buy I finish, but Ive never bought a game I didnt like.
I have rented a few that I never finished tho. the most recent would be darksiders and dragon age.
I got kinda bored of darksiders and didnt have time to finish it. Dragon age just had a horrible framerate despite how bad it looked. I figured if I ever play DA I would have to get the pc version.
I finish every game I touch. Mostly because I'm a completionist and like to get every penny out of my gaming purchases. Also, it's probably because I don't buy every other game that comes out.
This applies to women as well.
If a game isn't over in 5 hours or less I have a real hard time justifying the investment in time. I really do. The game has to be so good that it offers up a more dynamic experience as you go. Most games, 97% of them, are all the same -- Doesn't matter if it's 2 hours in or 10 hours in; they play the exact same way as they did when you start the game up. Nothing changes. The locations and that's it. You keep doing the same exact things over and over and over.
I loved Uncharted, but even still you only did
Duck behind cover
Run
Jump
Shoot
Climb ladders
Give a boost
Solve light puzzle
And that was it. All games are like this. The formula is stale. There needs to be something more to do, new ways to play, if games are to be any longer. If I'm sitting there, 10 hours into a game and I'm still doing the same thing as I was at 2 hours into the game there is no point in playing.
Anyone here ever try taking over the ENITRE WORLD in the Hearts of Iron games? Takes so ridiculously long, I usually play as the Germans and own continental europe, north africa, 75% of russia, and some of the mideast, but then I get too lazy to mount an offense against the rest Asia/N America/S America/Africa.
Same with the Total war games, I always end up controlling half the map, and then I can't expand anymore because the cities all suffer for squalor and begin to revolt.