I understand, your friend, special someone, or child ignores his/her duties and spends an inordinate amount of time on Video Games. You can’t see any use for the things, and you think the world in general would be better off without them. Not so, much for the same reasons the world wouldn’t be better off without, the internet, phones, or television.
Transitional phases are always accompanied with growing pains, and when we get new more powerful tools, we often use them the wrong way. But if we characterize our tools (like the internet) by the things they do wrong, then we deny them the chance to grow into anything better. That’s called being amish. Don’t be amish with Video Games.
We are just beginning to figure out what video games really are. If you want to treat them like toys for overgrown kids, then that’s all they will ever be. What we call video games, aren’t characterized by Mario, Angry Birds, or Halo(which are all great, btw). Video Games are characterized by the tools used to create them. Much like paintings are characterized by paint, a paintbrush, and a surface. Video Games are characterized by their use of every previous artistic tool with the added tool of user input. Throw away video games, and you throw away all the possibilities and potential that that toolset has.
You can’t choose to get rid of video games, they’re already here, all you can do is influence the direction they grow in. Video Games have a great amount of potential for good and bad. When you write Video Games on the whole off as bad, you retard any good they have the potential to grow into, and you effectively perpetuate the issues you complain about.
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.
