What is it today with games and game franchises, it seems that every single game released these days by developers is already planned to be a franchise for the company or at least a Trilogy. Lets look at some examples shall we, 'Mercenaries' released for the PS2 in 2005, and by 2008 we already have the sequel out in stores, and guess what according to this a mercenaries 3 is already in production, but that's not all, according to this Dead Space 2, Battlefield Bad Company 2 and Army of Two 2 are also in the making...not to mention the small news that Mirrors Edge 2 abd 3 are already planned...While it may seem that I am only citing EA games, which do have a tendency to be franchised, other game companies are looking to turn their games into franchises too! look at Ghostlights 'To End All Wars' a WW1 FPS game to be released sometime 2009, the publishers have already announced plans to turn into into a succesful franchise. it isn't suprising companies love creating sequels, seeing as the best sellers this year were sequels and that looks to continue into Next year with the release of Killzone 2 and maybe Uncharted 2, what do those two games have in common? Oh wait, they're sequels too...what do you think?
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
The charity event will be streamed live from Gamescom in August.
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.
You're right. Every single game becomes a franchise. Some games need franchises, some games don't. I hope that developers starting making original titles (Fracture, Geist, HAZE) and keep them solo. Half the games out now don't need sequels. Resistance is a great series for sequels, Army of Two doesn't (Army of Two Two??). You have a point.