PushStartSelect : "I don’t know about you, but almost everyone I know has a smart phone and every single one of them want to upgrade as soon as a new one comes out. This is a good or bad thing. Personally I would like my phone to last a while, and get somewhat frustrated when a new addition comes out and out dates mine. This is why I think cell phones are the prime reason consoles and handheld gaming devices are healthy for video games in general."
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."
That's stupid. Technology progresses quickly. It's been 5-6 years since this gen of consoles were released. Think about 10 years ago. Web browser on a games console? HA!
But it didn't seem so groundbreaking to us, because by the time the PS3 was released, we were already pretty spoiled with technology that we wouldn't have expected to have some 20 years ago. About Twenty years ago was SNES and that's not that long ago.
I couldn't care less about what's in the article. Ipads are HERE for fucks sake. The real next gen consoles will be amazing. Not just because of graphics.
Most phone games are glorified flash games and the ones that aren't play with an annoying touchscreen... yuck
Cell Phone games prove why cell phone games will never do anything for hardcore gamers - because most of them are a bunch of shite.
10 variations of fruit ninja, 100 variations of bejeweled, 1000 versions of hangman, doodle jump, pappi jump, crappy jump etc etc etc.
Mobile gaming is the equivilant of soaps. Free or extremely cheap, but offers mundane drama repeated over and over and over and over again mostly.
Console gaming may cost more, but it offers a bigger and better experience mostly.
Unfortunately, those who have started gaming due to a purchase of a smartphone now believe they know better than those who have been gaming on consoles and arcades since the early and mid 80's and claim cellphones are an equal to console gaming.
If I buy a console, a handeld or build a PC I can sleep peacefully knowing that I have more choice in games. For example I can play Angry Birds on any device now, cut the rope I can play in a web browser but can you play LittleBig Planet, Forza, Battlefield, CoD, Gran Turismo, Uncharted, Halo, Gears or Batman AA/AC etc. on a phone? No. Some might say not yet, but would any console or PC gamer want those on a touch screen only phone, which most are (Xperia play being an exception)? I won't.
If the likes of LG, Nokia, Samsung, HTC, RIM and Apple started designing phones similar to the Play then I can see dedicated handhelds suffering more, but nobody seems to want to do that.
funny stuff:
"I don’t know about you, but almost everyone I know has a smart phone"
That's because everyone needs a phone, dumb ass.