Sony is seen as arrogant, Microsoft as a tri-hard, whilst Nintendo has injected a simple fun element back into gaming. But, could Nintendo be catching a little of Sony's disease of complacency, whilst all around them competitors plot?
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."
Nintendo never actually learned from their mistakes the first time they were number 1. They still believe that they can strong arm publishers and retailers when they get on top. We saw what it did to them the first time. We're seeing it happen to Sony now. And there's no doubt in my mind that if MS ever becomes #1, they'll do it too.
These companies are great at copying one another, but never learn from one another's mistakes.
You do realize that the PS3 is in a "distant" third to both the Xbox 360 and the Wii. It would have to outsell them two fold for over a year to catch up. So your posts don't change any of that.
And in regards to the article, I don't think that Nintendo has anything to worry about. The Wii covers the casual demographic nicely, and the 360 covers the hardcore gaming. Once the Wii catalogue of games contains more harcore titles and the 360 more casual titles things will even out nicely. They both win on price, PS3 is odd man out.
The Wii will have beaten all of the sales throughout the GC's 6-year lifespan by this time next year. That's not hopeful thinking, that's a fact. All the evidence we need is a little game called "Super Smash Bros Brawl."
But no, I don't think Nintendo has been acting any more overconfident than its competitors, either. Right now, (although I think Sony's a great company) to a lot of people Sony seems like a bunch of pricks who like calculators and pie charts. Trust me, I don't agree with that sentiment, but let's face it: Sony's been getting a bad rap recently and until the AAA titles and the 40GB roll in (which they will) that's not going to change.
Anyway, again, (ironically) Nintendo seems quite youthful and friendly from an image standpoint, and I think that is actually a stark contrast from their N64-era image- they appealed to children, sure, just they were the mean old man who didn't like kids saying bad words or letting their pants go below the waist.
I really just dont think nintendo cares like honestly they are making money hand over fist right now and have the possibility of being able to afford making a really powerful system with all their toys and gadgets next time around which come be alot shorter then we expected......all in all they did hwat they had to do and all I can do is bow befor them they really knew how to make money without spending alot of it this time around
o yea btw smash brothers isnt only sells what like 5 6 mill tops so I doubt that will keep the system goin for another 4-5 years ....hell halo just sold that in a month