In his recent Gamesindustry.biz article, Richard Browne argues that used games are killing the single-player market. He calls it the “games churn:” people buy a new single-player game, play through it quickly, and then trade it in. Another person comes along and instead of buying a new copy of the game, buys the cheaper, used copy. The cycle continues, and sales of new copies suffer in the long run.
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."
just make a game that has more options and more freedom. if it is worth it i will play the game again. a good example (even though they are MP games haha) i played bad company 1 SP through 5 times and bad company 2 not even 1. one was semi open with options to do what you want and one was a linear CoD wannabe.
if you make the game original and engaging instead of just copying another successful game people will replay it because most genres are just full of unoriginal crap.
release DLC for it at a reasonable time after the release of the game but announce it earlier to maybe sway the decision to trade.
This is getting kind of silly the way people are blaming every thing on used games. Regardless of where you stand about used games, they have nothing to do ruining single player games.
The main thing ruining single player games today are greedy publishers and developers. I have no trouble finding good single player games to play, as long as I do my homework before making a purchase.
I see it as this. Pre-ordering bonuses are fine. It makes getting a new game worth it (sometimes). I have a problem with online passes especially being put in SP games! There are some flaws in online passes.