I just want to put this out there:
Disregarding which console is better, best games, etc. whenever I think about MS's gaming division, I feel like they're main goal is to get money from gamers (And in order to do that, they usually have to try to make them happy), while with Sony I feel like they have the dual goal of supporting they're gaming division, and making happy gamers.
I guess I base this off of stuff like the fact that Sony makes barely any money off PS3s, or that Microsoft charges those insane prices for HDDs.
And that, I guess, is why I'm generally inclined to the Playstation brand rather than Xbox (Well, that and microsfots horrible rep in general :p)
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.
Pay for Live Cam
Pay for Wireless device
Pay for expensive memory card
Pay for Xbox Live
Pay for gamerpics and backgrounds
Pay for a failed HD-DvD external device
Pay for hdd.
Microsoft are surely milking the money out of their consumers.
Sony and Microsoft have the exact same goal - profit, they just go about it differently. Maybe Sony believes the path to profit is supporting their gamers and using loyalty to meet their ends and, maybe MS doesn't give a damn about the consumer and thinks they won't even care if they screw them over. Maybe its the other way around. But believe me, they both want cash. They just have two different methods of obtaining it.
I want to approve, but it's so short. Could you go into more detail perhaps?
I disagree. MS is all about knocking Sony down and getting as much profit as possible whilst Sony are all about getting to the top and pushing their new formats(PS1=CD player, PS2=DVD Player, PS3=Blu-Ray Player, PSP=UMD) thus resulting in more profits.
Wow, what a compelling argument you present.
You could of just wrote:
"PS3 is the r0ckerz! Xbox 360 is the sucks0rz!"
Oh, yes Sony loves you! I bet they will show up to your elementary school graduation with cake and pie.