Xbox Q2 2026 Results

[Gizmo_Duck]

Microsoft lost $357 billion in market cap as stock plunged most since 2020

As investors sold shares of Microsoft on Thursday, the $3.22 trillion company dragged down the software complex and the S&P 500 index.

www.cnbc.com

 

[Ezekiel 25:17]

There is nothing to spin, if selling your games everywhere isn't profitable then selling them exclusively definitely wasn't going to be profitable.

Exclusives would've kept it profitable. Exclusives put xbox on the map.

Them giving away Fable 3 is most likely a nail in the coffin. Even gamepass people are complaining about the price.

 

[Ezekiel 25:17]

Real talk it seemed like what we said years ago about MS not being interested in their gaming division enough to put real money and time towards projects. No reason you buy all of those studios and not have a Elder Scrolls sequel, no fall out sequel, no new first party ips post buyout, etc. Plus someone that probably doesn't play games at corp MS probably thought Netflix for gamers were going to be a new thing and only saw dollar signs not understanding the way gamers consume games and their own player base. Oh well at least we will get some competition in the 3rd party publisher b space until they pull the lpulg

Nah, y'all got it wrong.

Microsoft's problem was


1)Not investing in new fresh IPs. Once upon a time, Halo, Gears, Fable and Forza were new IPs. Those put Xbox on the map. The 360 had great momentum. What did Microsoft do? Keep rehashing the same shyt instead of making system sellers. Instead of letting the talent lead, they had them making Halo 16.



2)Buying flabby n sick studios. The suits at the top are largely stupid and unaware. Microsoft can buy 10 more studios, that dont mean anything if the talent aint there. The talent who made COD and Fallout left years ago. Sony made a big mistake with Bungie. The OGs who made that studio left years ago. Sony had no business buying Bungie.

 

[The Mad Titan]

This is a complete lie Wasn't NO ONE online especially back then saying PS3 versions of games were much better for any reason. It was common belief that Xbox 360 versions of games were just better. Bayonetta is on my mind literally as I say this.

Saying most 360 exclusives outside of Halo and Gears flopped is nasty work.
Mass Effect was a flop? Fable II was a flop? Bioshock was a flop? Tales of Vesperia? Ninja Gaiden 2? Left 4 Dead? Man get out of here with that.

In that era, games hitting 10 million was not the norm. Halo 3 selling 14+ million was up there with COD which was selling at record pace. Outside of GTA IV and then later GTA V, only Halo 3 kept up in sales. Most other games were 1~3 million unit sellers which was big for those days. Something like UC2 selling 5 million two years after launch would be seen as "disappointing" today.

You simply won't admit exclusives were instrumental in the 360's success and perception simply because you know by saying that you're inadvertently admitting that PS3~PS5's greatest strengths were it's exclusives lol. You notice how you can list off everything else but suddenly exclusives are the one thing you can't seem to admit was also one of it's strengths? Stannery for Microsoft got you in a figure four headlock.

You always do this thing were you ignore something to try to push your point. You just mixed in a bunch of games that were actually timed exclusive to the Xbox and a somewhat weren't.

The only game you ever spoke about not playing on PS3 was Bayonetta. But that was the game that brought it to most people attention in the 1st place. Everything else "was good enough" for you.




I'll jog your memory

Damn good scores.

Oh and I'm hearing the PS3 version is better than the 360 version. Xbots :ANYWORD:

But the definitive version again is the PC version.

Which so happened to be in favor of the system that also had better multiplats at first.
As time went on though both games looked on par. Only game that ever struck me as shytty was Bayonetta on PS3, that shyt was terrible. FFXIII, RE5, and other games looked the same to me.

When I had a PS3 and 360, I preferred playing games on PS3 simply because I liked being on PSN where most of my friends where and online was free over Xbox. When a game like Bayonetta which ran and played way better on 360 came out, it would look silly to try and justify the PS3 version.

You'll argue me down about the bolded though, meanwhile...

You one of the main nikkas I'm talkin bout who act like the 360 was so amazing meanwhile bought a PS3 and played on that.

Online experience is the same on both consoles. Give me a break. This "online experience" nonsense was true back on 360 compared to the PS3 but nowadays there's no difference.

Crazy, you flip-flopped all over the place while trying to act like I'm the one making things up and stannin.

 

[GambinoMakeItWork]

downplaying the greatness of the 360 era in an attempt to minimize the falloff afterwards is levels of stannery even the cult can't fathom

ironically alot of modern day "Sony stans" had a 360 as their primary console that generation

 

[Fatboi1]

You always do this thing were you ignore something to try to push your point. You just mixed in a bunch of games that were actually timed exclusive to the Xbox and a somewhat weren't.

They were very important because during the time they were timed, it was also at the height of the peception that 360=better multiplats. So it wasn't like today where if a game is timed exclusive to a lagging platform it doesn't mean much. Timed exclusives were basically seen as "exclusive" back then. Hell, even FFXIII releasing on the 360 felt like a huge deal. You're also forgetting the Xbox having timed DLC for two of the biggest franchises on the planet, GTA IV and COD. That was a big deal, having a year+ exclusive window for an expansion pack for GTA IV. You acting like "exclusivity" wasn't a big deal when Microsoft literally paid millions to keep the DLC exclusive to Xbox for a year is complete delusion.

The only game you ever spoke about not playing on PS3 was Bayonetta. But that was the game that brought it to most people attention in the 1st place. Everything else "was good enough" for you.




I'll jog your memory

So me saying I heard Bioshock Infinite may run better on PS3 somehow negates every other major 3rd party game running/looking better on 360?


Also, by 2013/2014 I had already shifted away from Xbox as that's when the gradual decline started happening with their pivot to Kinect. By 2013 I was fully onboard with Sony because why? EXCLUSIVES. Uncharted 2, 3, LittlebigPlanet, Killzone, Resistance, Heavy Rain, Persona, PASBR etc. 2013+later was now the start of the PS4 era where the gap between Playstation and Xbox started to decrease.

You'll argue me down about the bolded though, meanwhile...

You one of the main nikkas I'm talkin bout who act like the 360 was so amazing meanwhile bought a PS3 and played on that.

This is why it's impossible to conversate with you.

Where in anything did I say that I never had a 360? I literally got a PS3 in 2010, before that I was always on X360. I literally bought a PS3 around Halo 3's launch due to some of my coworkers all raving about it in 2007. Literally bought it at the K-Mart next to my job and caught the bus with it home excited to get on.

I stopped playing on Xbox a bit after 2011. Last major playtime on Xbox was around Halo 4 and Gears 3 the year before that. I completely skipped Xbox One and obviously now. Those days are over. I was an Xbox fan before I was a PS fan. I used to think Uncharted was wack when I first saw it.

Crazy, you flip-flopped all over the place while trying to act like I'm the one making things up and stannin.

Yeah you're literally incapable of reading. I literally said "The online experience" was superb on the 360 but "nowadays" it's irrelevant mostly. That post was from 2019, YEARS after the PS4 has been out to where all the things people championed on 360 were standard now on PS4 e.g. party chat, headsets coming with the system, music playing in the background etc. PS4 was a huge step up to where PSN no longer felt like this lower quality online platform compared to Xbox. You're literally posting something strengthening my point then posting below it as if you had a gotcha .

It's quite funny seeing how you swear you're the most level headed guy here and that everyone else is just completely out of their minds and biased, when anybody that's objective can see we've kept things fair and even praised a product that we supposedly hate. Why would "Sony stans" say the X360 was great if we just blindly hate Xbox?

I don't think you even believe half the shyt you post here, you just have to keep saying it to put up with the facade of being a contrarian stan. You're like those cacs that are on the internet constantly trying to disprove that the Ancient Egyptians were indigenous black Africans despite the overwhelming amount of evidence that clearly and almost irrefutably shows otherwise. It makes no sense man.

 

[HiiiPower]

This is going to end with The gaming division being scapegoated by Satya and shut down, Microsoft’s ideas and decisions relating to Xbox over the last few years have been so baffling I can only come up with 2 reasons where it’s one or the other..

1. Everybody there really is that fukking clueless

Or

2. Satya has internally sabotaged Phil/Xbox at every turn as an excuse to fukk Xbox off as a supplier so that money can be spent on other things like AI etc ect

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

downplaying the greatness of the 360 era in an attempt to minimize the falloff afterwards is levels of stannery even the cult can't fathom

ironically alot of modern day "Sony stans" had a 360 as their primary console that generation

Right here

I didn’t even care about the ps3 until mgs4 and again until uncharted 2 and 3

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

This is going to end with The gaming division being scapegoated by Satya and shut down, Microsoft’s ideas and decisions relating to Xbox over the last few years have been so baffling I can only come up with 2 reasons where it’s one or the other..

1. Everybody there really is that fukking clueless

Or

2. Satya has internally sabotaged Phil/Xbox at every turn as an excuse to fukk Xbox off as a supplier so that money can be spent on other things like AI etc ect

Gonna end up taking down 3 major publishers and a bunch of decades old beloved gaming studios with them if they don’t sell them off to Saudi’s or china

 

[IsThatBrothaMouzone?]

I think the 360 era was a mirage.

PS3 was hard to develop for at first and the price was $$$. 360 became the default console for many. Sony was still patting itself on the back after PS and PS2.

They closed the gap at the end of that generation and built momentum. The kinect shyt plus some good exclusives for PS4, put Xbox behind the 8-Ball.

Honestly enjoy my Series X. Controller lasts a lot longer than my PS5 controller. Consoles themselves aren't that different...it's about games and perception and MS hasn't figured out how to get out of that ditch.

They'll say they've pivoted to other mediums ("everything is an Xbox") but it's kinda like playing a football game, losing 14-9 then saying that we are winning because we scored three times and they only scored twice. If you define winning a certain way, it looks disingenuous to change the definition when you're losing.

Now if they had said some shyt like this back in 2006/2007 when they had PS3 by the nuts....it would hold more sway.

 

[HiiiPower]

Right here

I didn’t even care about the ps3 until mgs4 and again until uncharted 2 and 3

Yup, TLOU for me

Gonna end up taking down 3 major publishers and a bunch of decades old beloved gaming studios with them if they don’t sell them off to Saudi’s or china

And yup

 

[CoolinInTheCut]

Must've been a slow day on resetera if all the Sony stans are here furiously typing up paragraphs

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

Must've been a slow day on resetera if all the Sony stans are here furiously typing up paragraphs

Akademiks must not be streaming

 

[CoolinInTheCut]

Akademiks must not be streaming

I can tell Greg Miller and Colin Morality havent missed a day streaming tho

Look at all your new cac tweets and talking points you been itching to get off before the bots even saw this thread

 

[Animal House]

Well thats because it was true. In the middle of the 360 generation when Microsoft was dominating, they for some reason decided that hardcore games didn't matter and went all in on kinect.

And that’s the end of the story. I don’t see why this is so hard to comprehend. Xbox was rolling mid 360 era and towards the end a shift happened if you were paying attention. Sony turned it around and M$ really shyt the bed and their pants. The end results are what we have now.

But I just watched a video talking about their next console and it looks very promising, I’m definitely going to cop if it shapes up to be true