Looking back on it Xbox buying Activision Blizzard is going to be looked at as the turning point for Xbox. I know they reiterate their commitment to hardware but the market has clearly spoken on that front. It's going to get to the point they won't be able to justify keeping it around too much longer. Game Pass never really made it off the ground because they never really got all that many desirable titles to the service before their hardware completely cratered. With hardware dying off there's no justifiable reason to keep the service going as they basically are transformed into a third party developer.
I don't understand how The largest most successful company in the world blew this. Ultimately it'll be the gamers that suffer because Nintendo will continue to rule their segment of the market and Sony will just take whatever Xbox abandons and rule that segment and those will be the choices for console gaming. I've never seen an example of consumers getting less choices and it benefiting them.
No new company is going to step into fill Microsoft's shoes because by the time they got a product to market after R&D and all that Sony will have claimed all Microsoft's previous customers who don't turn to PC and the new company would be in a worse position than Microsoft with less assets than they even had. All that to basically fight for a chunk of the high end console market that is capped at just under 185 or so million total users? Nobody doing that.
I don't understand how The largest most successful company in the world blew this. Ultimately it'll be the gamers that suffer because Nintendo will continue to rule their segment of the market and Sony will just take whatever Xbox abandons and rule that segment and those will be the choices for console gaming. I've never seen an example of consumers getting less choices and it benefiting them.
No new company is going to step into fill Microsoft's shoes because by the time they got a product to market after R&D and all that Sony will have claimed all Microsoft's previous customers who don't turn to PC and the new company would be in a worse position than Microsoft with less assets than they even had. All that to basically fight for a chunk of the high end console market that is capped at just under 185 or so million total users? Nobody doing that.
