Piracy has been an issue as long as games have been around, but considering the rising cost of developing games, can developers afford to ignore it any longer. In the past two weeks three major torrents have been leaked onto the internet: Fallout 3, Far Cry 2, and now Gears of War 2. The fact that two of these titles are multi-platform makes it even more interesting.
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.
Well it was even MORE common on the PS1 and PS2.. Did it kill them?? Thank you come again.
I think your right. You cant compare this to ps2 though because 100 Mil consoles does not compare to the 20 Xbox has now. Blu Ray now is safe option, and if the PS3 gets closer in sales, this might become a big problem.
definitely not
other consoles have been way easier to pirate and they flourished
average consumer isn't going to know the workings of 360 piracy, the only places it has any major effect are contries where piracy runs rampant like india and china
Now why is it that piracy on the PC is a huge reason people say games should be made console exclusive, yet when piracy is rampant on the consoles, it's no big deal?
No one liked a pirate stealing their games so you have a point.