For those of you who didn't read part 1 yet, I'm going to take a quick look at
the three top "Hot Stories" from Xbox 360, PS3, and Industry news. I'll
put links at the bottom, so you can see for yourself, how the numbers
really add up. Of those articles, I'll read the first 25 comments.
Why am I doing this? To finally answer the question "Which side is worse on N4G?" After doing the PS3 section, there were three (count em, three!) trolls. TheMart (who to his credit had a quasi troll), Power of Green (who didn't technically appear, but got an honorable mention), and toughName.
The first two articles are "Charging for Microsoft Xbox Live" and "Confirmed: No Microsoft press conference at Games Convention" I had to skip down a little for the third because the others had less than 25 comments or had little to do with 360 (Special thanks to the person who submitted "Sony to revolutionise online" as 360 news), so the third is "18 Best Game Engines of Next Gen".
First thing to notice, there's almost no non-multi-plat news (side point, why is there only one too human review? it comes out in 5 days). I wonder why that is, and no I don't actually wonder, and no it's not because the 360 has no good news--troll elsewheres.
Second, I'm not actually going to breakdown "Charging for Microsoft Life" or "No Microsoft Press Conference at 'Games Convention'". Why? you ask. Here's why. I am going to give it to you with 0 bias. You can read it for yourself. The comments tell the story, and nobody can argue with it.
I'm not even going to try to count the trolls, they are numerous especially in the press conference article.
Here's the links:
Charging for Microsoft Live
Confirmed: No Microsoft press conference at Games Convention
and the only one to actually not turn into a console war in the first 25 comments:
18 Best Game Engines of Next-Gen
Stay tuned for Part 3: The Front Page. It's going to be done at a later date (probably tomorrow) to minimize overlap between articles, and give me time to sleep before work.
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.
It's been a good couple of days
i like how you did this, its an actual blog without bias in it. Wow haha. Good read
Cry me a river... this guy is a wuss. You are probably one of those gamers that yell in his mic "SHUT UP SHUT UP JUST SHUT UP SHUT UP" when people start trash talking online.
I don't mind it as long as it's clean either, I just don't like how you can't even have a discussion without being drowned out by everyone turning it into somehow negative news.