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Prospective Buyers Reportedly Value Xbox As High As $150 Billion Xbox is reportedly planning three waves of layoffs between now and January PS5’s Biggest Physical Games Look Very Different From Its Biggest Digital Hits It's not just Xbox celebrating 25 years - retro translucent green tech is taking over All Lanterns codes (October 2026) and how to redeem them for free Lantern Coins Riot is finally changing Mel's reflect, but I'm going to miss League of Legends' most busted mechanic Here's our second wave of Xbox Game Pass games for October 2026 Crimson Desert DLC features everything from shipbuilding to marriage

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Prospective Buyers Reportedly Value Xbox As High As $150 Billion GameSpot Gaming 1 کاتژمێر پێش

Prospective Buyers Reportedly Value Xbox As High As $150 Billion

Everything has a selling price, and in Xbox's case, Microsoft's gaming division could be worth at least $100 billion. That's according to a new report, which claims that several private equity firms mulled purchasing Xbox and were willing to go as high as $150 billion for Microsoft's gaming hub--enough cash to buy 15 billion rubber duckies, 50 billion McDouble Cheeseburgers, or 100 billion Costco Hot Dog combos. Or if you felt like wasting that cash, you could easily fund the production of 500 more Avatar movies from James Cameron. According to The Information , the companies involved were merely exploring options and didn't start any negotiations with Microsoft. Fortune recently claimed that several people inside the company believe that it is being prepped for an "eventual sale, spin-off, outside investment, or conversion into a subsidiary," and that a high-level presentation exploring potential scenarios was made after Asha Sharma took over as Xbox CEO. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gokyI6hHp2g&t=15s&pp=0gcJCSwMAYcqIYzv It's also worth noting that Sharma has in the past dismissed claims that Xbox could be sold . "Xbox is not for sale," Sharma said. "We will do whatever it takes to set the company up for success, and we will look at the right partnerships, the right operating model, and everything needed to achieve that." Putting enough zeroes on the end of a paycheck could persuade Microsoft to get out of the gaming business. That corporate entity isn't made of stone ! The next Xbox console could cost as much as $1,800, depending on whether Microsoft decides to subsidize some of the cost. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella commented earlier this year that Xbox needs to start pulling its financial weight, as its accountability margins amount to only a 3% profit--not a good look, considering Microsoft has invested billions in its gaming ambitions over 25 years. Since Sharma took over Xbox operations, the company has undergone a "reset" designed to get it back on track and profitable once again. Unfortunately, that has meant sweeping layoffs across multiple departments--with more to come--and the departure of several studios from the Xbox portfolio. Sharma has spoken about Microsoft's ambitious goal to substantially expand Xbox's reach across the world, and recently, new arms of the company have been set up. Xbox XP will be largely focused on non-gaming Xbox initiatives like its multimedia projects, while Xbox Labs appears to be an answer to the rise of vibe-coded web browser ports that have popping up lately.

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PS5’s Biggest Physical Games Look Very Different From Its Biggest Digital Hits GameSpot Gaming 2 کاتژمێر پێش

PS5’s Biggest Physical Games Look Very Different From Its Biggest Digital Hits

The furore over Sony's decision to effectively kill physical games on its PlayStation platform appears to have died down (for now), and new data from Alinea Analytics shows how wide the split between physical and digital PS5 games is in 2026. As Alinea's head of market analysis, Rhys Elliott, notes , PlayStation's top new 2026 games by physical copies are mostly single-player AAA titles, with Resident Evil Requiem the best-seller. Capcom's hit Resident Evil game is estimated to have sold 1.3 million units on PS5, and it's also estimated to be the only game on the list to have broken the 1 million sales milestone. Other games like 007 First Light (873,000) and Marvel's Wolverine have come close (799,000), but overall, digital currently has a 70/30 sales lead. Top PlayStation games by physical copies sold and revenues Resident Evil Requiem -- 1.3 million units sold 007 First Light -- 873K units sold Marvel's Wolverine -- 799K units sold EA Sports FC 27 -- 705K units sold Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced -- 613K units sold Crimson Desert -- 511K units sold Pragmata -- 442K units sold Onimusha: Way of the Sword -- 423K units sold As Elliott explained, PlayStation first-party and Japan-centric games typically shift more physical units, with sales of Capcom games like Pragmata and Onimusha: Way of the Sword almost split evenly between physical and digital this year. Physical sales accounted for 44.0% of Pragmata's copies sold so far and 44.1% of Onimusha's copies sold, thanks to Capcom's home market in Japan. "Our estimates show that Japan accounts for 12% of Onimusha‘s copies sold on PlayStation, and 11% for Pragmata‘s. While digital shares are on the up in Japan, Japanese consumers still have a penchant for physical copies, more so than any Western market. It’s ingrained in the culture," Elliott wrote. "Our estimates show that Japan accounts for 12% of Onimusha‘s copies sold on PlayStation, and 11% for Pragmata‘s. While digital shares are on the up in Japan, Japanese consumers still have a penchant for physical copies, more so than any Western market. It’s ingrained in the culture." Onimusha: Way of the Sword Other games like Silent Hill: Townfall, Beast of Reincarnation, Yakuza Kiwami 3, and the Fatal Frame 2: Crimson Butterfly remake have also seen their sales split down the middle between physical and digital in Japan, but Sony is attempting to subtly persuade that market to go digital. The company recently released a digital-only PS5 exclusively in that region, at the tempting price of $350. While Japan is something of an outlier when it comes to game medium preference, the rest of the world is a different story. Sports games are some of the best-sellers of any given year, and as Elliott pointed out, five of the top 10 games in 2026's new PlayStation games by revenue were all sports games. Only 8.9% of EA Sports FC 27 games sold this year were physical, while sales of NBA 2K27, Madden 27, College Football 27, and MLB The Show 26 also heavily favored digital sales. Publishers have slowly nudged their audiences toward digital editions over the years, offering early access and other perks to encourage them. In comparison, the prestige single-player games that Sony became known for, are still popular with physical game collectors. It's easy to see why Sony wants to squeeze as much revenue juice out of its consumers as possible, as it loses out on extra potential cash with each physical sale. It has to hand a portion of sales over to retailers, fork over cash for various distribution costs, and the company probably isn't happy about it can't extract any cash from the second-hand game sales market. EA Sports FC 27 Compare that to digital and third-party sports games, and you can see how Sony takes a 30% cut from a massive number of games sold on its marketplace, in a genre that is nearly all-digital. "It's doubly ironic, given the whole move is about squeezing more revenue per player, and a lot of the highest revenue users are some of the people Sony's pissing off," Elliott concluded. "But no, PlayStation won't necessarily lose much revenue by switching to digital-only. Some players will walk, but most will move over to digital. The economics are sound. That wasn’t ever the issue (in my view, anyway). The issue’s been with messaging and giving players a proper off-ramp from physical. Sony is usually quiet and doesn’t talk much, which can sometimes be a strength. It hasn’t been a strength here."

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Here's our second wave of Xbox Game Pass games for October 2026 Eurogamer Gaming 3 کاتژمێر پێش

Here's our second wave of Xbox Game Pass games for October 2026

Microsoft has revealed the second batch of games coming to Xbox Game Pass this month, and there are few genuine corkers, including the console debuts of The Séance of Blake Manor and Mouthwashing , and the addition of Final Fantasy 7 Remake Intergrade - which only arrived on Xbox earlier this year. Read more

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