The Escapist writes: "PC developers should stop worrying about graphical spectacle, because the pursuit of graphics is doing us more harm than good."
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."
Stop worrying about graphics once photorealism is standard for every game.
I disagree. This is basically saying lets be lazy and not worry about upgrading graphics/features because it is easier (cheaper!!) for us devs to make a game.
Thank God for competition..
"PC developers should stop worrying about graphical spectacle"
Oh yeah like PC devs are graphics whore while all I read on ps3/xbox forum is permanent war on graphics between gow/uncharted/killzone etc...
On the contrary, PC is the home of indies, which are the perfect counter balance of poor gameplay/top notch graphics.
Think minecraft, terraria, frozen synapse and the tons of others.
This is where indie game development has a strong foothold. It doesn't take massive amounts of money to make an old school game with old school graphics that is still fun to play. At the end of the day gaming should be about making a good experience for the gamer, not trying to take every dollar possible from the consumer.
Good bye Good Graphics, we will miss you :'(