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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.
Thanks for the link on the GPU specs. I guess I somehow missed the actual GPU type during this whole fiasco.
Only thing I can point out is that it may be premature to give Sony a pass on the used games front. They have said that they will leave it up to the publisher. Because of this, it is highly likely that the major publishers will want to block used games, and at the very least I'm sure EA is giddy with excitement over this...after all we had to know they didn't drop online passes out of love of their customers. I hope Sony doesn't do it, but if 1st party games, and if a good number of devs don't block used, then it's still a viable system for me. Otherwise Wii U may be my only next-gen console, because it's simply something I can not support, even though I always buy new, and never trade in. I simply can't roll over anymore in the face of so much anti-consumer BS that's happened these past 7 years, and I can not see myself doing it for another 7+.
Otherwise I found most of your blog pretty fair, and seems to echo most of the common consensus.
Some good points here; thanks for sharing.
I would urge you to dive a little deeper into the new controllers and Kinect features. I actually think that the ‘dynamic impulse triggers’ coupled with the TrackIR capabilities of the new Kinect could add a whole new layer of immersion to console gaming.
I’m drafting up my thoughts on the reveal and will post later. (“,)