
An analyst look at the video game industry outlook 2026, covering hardware uncertainty, subscriptions, discoverability, and GTA 6’s impact.

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.

TG writes: If you’ve ever wanted that chaotic, large-scale modern warfare feeling from Battlefield but in full VR immersion, Forefront delivers it better than anything else currently available on Quest.
Interesting read
So many games huge backlogs now it's about buy few games per year. So far in 2026 I haven't bought anything and my goal is to not buy any games this year. Finish 250 games in the backlog. Already finished bunch of smaller title
Games come out needing many months of patching so it's just wait and see and I'd game turns out good buy it for cheap with all the dlc