Microsoft just reported its Q4 2025 results, providing some interesting insights into its gaming ventures. The company's overall quarterly revenue increased by an impressive 17% compared to the same period last year, reaching $81.3 billion. This growth is primarily driven by the strong performance o...
  • kinkles@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    3 months

    It was bleak when they came in 4th in a 3-console race last holiday season.

    • thingsiplay@lemmy.mlEnglish
      3 months

      Yeah, that was surprising. Sounds like a joke, but it actually happened (on Amazon).

  • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    3 months

    Microslop has announced customer as well as employee reductions from the implementation of AI business technotogy

  • RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3 months

    I mean, they haven’t released any console exclusives, making all their games available on the competition console, AND they increased prices.

    I would never believe if they didn’t say they were doing it on purpose to manipulate market data. Probably to try to push the idea of a cloud subscription-only, disk driveless, hard diskless plastic box.

  • fusionsaint@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3 months

    What constantly telegraphing to the entire industry that you’re basically planning on bailing on the Hardware business and that you really don’t care about your consumer base at all. Has come back to bite them in the ass. I’m shocked I tell you shocked.

  • Thatuserguy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3 months

    Nothing brings me more joy than seeing this. After they closed their only good studios because their bigger, mediocre ones didn’t make enough money, I haven’t even booted my Series X since

  • JayTreeman@fedia.io
    3 months

    I was going to buy a series x this year, but with the increase in game pass price, it’s just not worth it anymore.

  • k0e3@lemmy.caEnglish
    3 months

    Suppose I find one used for cheap. Is there a way — and would it be worth it — to repurpose it as an affordable gaming PC?

    • DanceMomsSavedMe@piefed.socialEnglish
      3 months

      I was going to try this too before selling it but they straight have that shit locked down to an insane degree. No way that I could find to jailbreak it in anyway.

      • k0e3@lemmy.caEnglish
        3 months

        That’s a shame :(

        It’d have been nice if we got to do some general computing on it with a jailbreak.

  • DanceMomsSavedMe@piefed.socialEnglish
    3 months

    Yeah when they raised the gamepass price from $20 to $30 I sold my XSX. PlayStation has always been better as far as consoles go anyway now I just rock my PC and for any invasive kernal level anti cheat that won’t work on Linux (thankfully) I just get those for PlayStation.

    I always hated Xbox but they actually got me to buy one of their consoles simply because the game pass used to be such a good deal. And they even fucked that up.

    Won’t be long and they will not make anymore consoles. Or just pay to put the Xbox branding on a PC which is what they are doing with the handheld coming out.

  • NastyNative@mander.xyzEnglish
    3 months

    Never stood a chance! I really hope they learned their lesson and stay out of the gaming market. They introduced pay to play online while PS3 was free. Then they tried to buy all the big publishers to hoard games and make them more expensive. Fuck Xbox!

  • Omega@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3 months

    I bought mine assuming the new Fable would be a console exclusive.

    I also use it for Halo and Morrowind. But damn, I probably wouldn’t have bought it if I had known it would be multi-platform.

    • thingsiplay@lemmy.mlEnglish
      3 months

      Never buy on a promise what could be in future. But on the other hand, you will be able to play Fable on the console. It doesn’t get worse just because its not exclusive…

      • Omega@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3 months

        I already have a PS5 which I’ll get it on. I got the Xbox on a discount to play Halo Infinite with good specs (ended up hating it) and Fable. I kinda hoped for some other benefits. But end of the day, I didn’t actually need it for anything.

      • Omega@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3 months

        That’s what I meant by multiplatform. I don’t fully regret my Xbox because I got it one of those steep discounts and I have Halo lan parties. So a second xbox is nice. But it’s essentially just a more powerful Xbox One now.

  • anakin78z@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3 months

    We still have an Xbox One, and last year was really the first year that games were no longer available for that console. We ended up getting those games on steam and got a 2nd steam deck during the sale. I think we’ll wait a few more years to see how prices keep changing. Also want to see how the Steam Machine does, although I’m sure it’ll be expensive compared to a console.

  • TORFdot0@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3 months

    I recently got an Xbox One S to play my 360 games via remote play but $10 a month for Xbox live is ridiculous