Talks of a new 360 SKU with a 60 GB HD, or even a future revision with an internal Blu-ray drive, have me wondering -
Is anyone else tired of all the SKU crap in this console war? It's one thing for a console to undergo significate hardware revisions once or twice in its lifetime in order to lower the manufacturing costs (see: PS2, PSP, DS, PS1, etc.), but this is getting ridiculous.
Maybe I'm alone here, but I don't want 3 or 4 versions of the same damn console. I enjoy console gaming because of its simplicity compared to PC gaming.
I tried to explain the backwards compatability thing for the PS3 to someone and it's just insane:
"Well there's the 60 GB and the 20 GB that came out first and have full backwards compatability and then the 80 GB one came out but it uses software emulation so it only has SOME backwards compatability and then the 40 GB one came out and it has NO backwards compatability."
And that's after a year of the PS3 being on the market. And what if Microsoft releases a 360 with an internal Blu-ray drive as rumored? Do we really need to add that confusion to the pile too?
The strength of console gaming is the simplicity. You buy the system, throw in the game, and you know it works just as well on your console as it does on the millions of others.
Just look at the recent Bully issues on the 360. Apparently it might happen on older 360's but not on newer ones? Is that really what we've come to in console gaming? This is the crap I tried to get away from when I went back to console gaming.
We seem to be losing that this generation - and I don't like it one bit.
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.
I agree with you that console gaming is becoming a lot like PC gaming. Thank god we have Nintendo, or this generation would have just been a hardware war between Micorsoft and Sony...
I second that.