It is kind of interesting. As the whole consumer electronics and film industry was discussing the end of the format war it already came to my mind that we are of course having the same issue with game consoles since years. What other than a format war is the onging battle between the big three Nintendo, Microsoft and Sony?
After EA came up recently with the idea of an open gaming platform, now David Jaffe is jumping on the same bandwaggon with his latest post on his blog. the question is actually a very valid one and it is actually not easy to justify a multi platform approach in this area, where we are all asking for single platforms and standards in others. It's even more difficult to justify this approach looking specifically at the movie industry as both are very similar in many ways.
Ok, before we discuss the pros and cons let's look at the situation as such
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."
V-Smile > All.
(UbiTool) Oh great!, another Capcomcop saying how much Lost Planet 2 is soooo,much-better then God of War 3.
But for a gaming console, we'd basically have a PC set up for gaming only and that's not too exciting, this the console wars will carry on.
Thinking....I can see it now, well who's inside's are going in this single console, mine, no mine, no mine....we'd have MS and sony and Nintendo all making a console with the same guts but trying to market there's as the better unit, lol.
Then they'd still be wasting money trying to one up each other, naaa the single unit will never be.
Let freedom ring!!!!!!!!!!!!! Or competition as the case may be:)