It seems the favorite phrase for most 360 and PS3 fans are that their Wii's are gathering dust. Well during these fine few weeks all my consoles have been gather dust. Well I suppose my HD-DVD add on has been on playing some fun anime's and what-not. Playing games however, not so much.
Hmm now I know what you're asking how in good graciousness can I call myself a gamer and not play any games!? Well the answer my friend is blowing in the wind... (hmmm got to turn off my music). No it's not that I have abandoned my love of gaming it's a much easier answer. Handheld glory :)
Some people seem to think that the only way one can play handhelds if they are sitting on a bus or traveling on a plane. This is just a silly concept that I can't really wrap my mind around. Handholds are a great way to play games while still enjoying a good movie, TV show, sitting in front of a window listening to cars drive by, and even sitting outside. There is a plethora of games for each the handhelds that offer a wide variety of types that can't be found on a console unless you go back 2 or more generations. Who likes to do that?
Right now I'm sitting pretty with Zelda and Tactics as my main guns and I'm watching 12 Kingdoms, Lost, House, and a bunch of movies. Sure you'll still see me online once or twice in-game but right now the focus is handhelds. I'm looking forward to the piano black psp slim for I hear it's faster and lighter and well better. Tactics on the psp phat seems to have slow down on all fronts so gets to be a bit annoying but still highly enjoyable. Zelda mixes good dungeon crawling and full stylist control for a very positive gaming session.
Besides having games that are tributes to classic consoles it also has many games that cannot be found on a gaming console. Those quick but fun puzzles, brain teasers, and the strange and quirky other genre. I'm do like how the PSN and XBLA and soon WiiWare are somewhat offering these type of games to consoles but the true home for these are handhelds. Now for Sega to re-make the Game Gear and put out some cool games for it. Ah if only...
All in all I feel handhelds are a great way to still enjoy a game but seeing that the fall season is running the shows and more and more movies keep coming out it's hard to still get in time to play console games that require the TV to play them. At least with handhelds you get a wealth of gaming goodness in the palm of your hand and can still be out and about or watch your show you've been dying to see.
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.
