Asia powers PC rebound in computer gaming industry
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."
from article;
"Entertainment industry research firm DFC Intelligence said in a market report released in September that the PC could dethrone consoles as the dominant hardcore gaming platform in three years.
Data from the firm showed that the global PC games market raked in a record $16.2 billion last year, up 20 percent from 2009.
Although the console games market -- valued at nearly $25 billion in 2010 -- outperformed the PC platform last year, DFC predicts a reversal of fortunes by 2014 because consoles have lost momentum."
I like how they put pc gaming up against all consoles including ps2, wii, ds, 3ds, psp, ps3 and 360 and it still almost makes as much as all of them combined......
PC gaming is Killing it
It easily makes more money than ps3 and 360 combined!!
But.....shhhhhh....don't let the media know, no one from "pc gaming" is giving them Billions in add revnue.
Don't you wish your console makers would spend that money on fresh new ip's, studios, games or paying for you to get all that idiotic day one dlc free instead of lining ign, gamespot and all the other giant media conglomerates pockets with your money?
I know I do, I own all the consoles and buy the good exclusives, but man there is a ton of shovelware to sift thru, not saying there isn't on pc, there is, but there is a lot more freedom and creativity there too!
Ohhh well, We can pretend that ps3 and 360 are the only things that count and talk about call of duty sales on xbox360 forever!!!!
agree with everything you said