The chickens have come home to roost. At this point there's going to be nothing left of what was for a very brief period a powerhouse brand in gaming but Activision Blizzard, Mojang Studios, and Bethesda games under Microsoft's umbrella releasing 3rd party games. A bunch of companies that were already putting out games just purchased and doing that under new ownership.
Xbox still hasn't confronted the issue that in about 2 decades they haven't created much in the way of valuable long lasting IPs.
I could see if they were successful making hardware and selling it but decided they wanted even more reach so they put their games on other platforms. That's a decision coming from a position of strength. This is an abject failure coming from a position of weakness because they never learned how to create anything of value.
They'll be able to coast for a while off stuff like Call of Duty that they purchased that already had value but since they didn't solve their issue of creating new popular valuable IPs even if they transition into being a 3rd party or whatever that still follows them.
Xbox still hasn't confronted the issue that in about 2 decades they haven't created much in the way of valuable long lasting IPs.
I could see if they were successful making hardware and selling it but decided they wanted even more reach so they put their games on other platforms. That's a decision coming from a position of strength. This is an abject failure coming from a position of weakness because they never learned how to create anything of value.
They'll be able to coast for a while off stuff like Call of Duty that they purchased that already had value but since they didn't solve their issue of creating new popular valuable IPs even if they transition into being a 3rd party or whatever that still follows them.