At a big internal Q&A session, Xbox CEO Asha Sharma hosted Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, discussing the "long" vision for Xbox's future.
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
Strauss Zelnick says price of GTA 6 is being carefully considered and that Rockstar is focused on "making the most spectacular piece of entertainment on Earth."
If GTA 6 abandons everything that made GTA 5 great, it will crash and burn right out of the gate. GTA 5 was funny and not at all PC. My worry is that they will cave to the PC crowd and ruin the vibes.
They got freaking BBLs twerking on the top of trucks for the gram, the freaking Flordia joker, and dude running down the stree in their undies and you are worried about it being 'too PC'? The internet has runied gamers. It doesn't matter how non-PC they make the game, you will all listen to the grifters telling you not to believe your lying eyes lol.
"Rockstar Games’ co-founder and former VP of Development Jamie King said he envisions GTA 6 as a game that’s “maybe not quite as edgy or quite as funny” as its satirical predecessors."
oh yeah, totally internet grifters spreading rumors...
That's part of the plan, they destroyed you but they need to destroy the shareholders? Only 1 shre holder is the true elite that don't care
Meh.., if it’s above £55 I ain’t buying it.
Rockstar are genuinely not half the company they used to be. I was a die hard GTA fan I’ve purchased every game and expansion and spin off day 1.
My opinion of GTA6 is that I can take it or leave it. Not bothered. They burnt too many bridges.
So they're actually leaving the door open for an L.A. Noire sequel? Nice!
He should just come out and say it already it's getting stupid it's going to be a 100 bucks $200 for the special edition🤡🤡; 29315;🤣♿
I won't be getting this game until I can get it for $70. SHoot, I could wait for it to be even lower. I don't need the game that badly as my backlog is still huge and I am enjoying playing other things.
Mobile and GaaS I’m sure they will. Anything else is up for debate long term
Providing PlayStation and Switch and PC keep doing well. Microsoft will keep releasing games.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
If they want to at least attempt to compete next gen they literally need to have exclusives for Xbox Helix. They themselves said "return to Xbox", I mean what does that entail? Next Halo, Blade (though it'll be cross gen but still) and Elder Scrolls need to launch titles and build momentum from there. It's not about List wars or console warring or anything like that. How else are they suppose to compete? People look at 3 things, price, the games and features. They don't have price from the rumors they do have the games and probably have some cool features. Have their marketing top notch marketing. I think they're gonna get rid of this is an xbox, no console required campaigns. Which is necessary if you're "going back to Xbox" Asha said to be making plans, flexible but stern apparently internal "excitement" idc about so much her, I'm Looking at Satya as he's the one who signs off on everything.
I don't care about fluff words and PR. Only results and actions. Again I'll be extremely surprised if they actually change and improve things. At the end of a generation we need all 3 in tact. I trust Nintendo and Sony ro come out strong it's Xbox that shoots themselves to near extinction every gen
I will give Xbox the benefit of the doubt this time given they are under new leadership and be on the lookout for more news on Project helix.
As someone who owns a Series X and PS5, if you only own a series X, you will not be hurting for games because the exclusive release cadence on playstation is slow this generation. At most you will have to put up with the timed 3rd party exclusives the playstation gets for the biggest games. I think part of the problem was with Phil Spencer. Throughout this generation, I have always heard about how Sony will assist 3rd party developers to bring games to Playstation and at the same time, you hear complaints from developers about no support from Xbox.
The Xbox is not in it's current position because it could not put up a fight against Playstation, it is because their previous CEO didn't want to. He would say you can't out console Sony.
I am not worried too much about Xbox not having any exclusives going forward because if the new console can play PC games and it is open, there will be hundreds of games available that are not on consoles.
I also noticed some hypocrisy with gaming media and some YouTube gamers. They will say if Xbox is going to release a console that can play PC gamers and cannot be upgraded, why won't people just buy a PC, yet when they are talking about the Steam machine, they show immense interest in that dispite it likely being a lower powered machine compared to the PC they use to edit and upload their Videos.
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