Microsoft vision for Xbox future on 15th February on the official Xbox podcast at 12pm PT. 3PM ET. 8pm GMT

Will Microsoft go full 3rd party and drop console hardware going forward?

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MeachTheMonster

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PS selling games on PC = “desperate for cash!”

Yet…

MS BEGGING to put Xbox games everywhere = “they are expanding their brand!”
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MS may not be hurting for cash (due to SpreadSheet sales), but Xbox definitely is struggling to financially justify those big ass acquisitions. GP is nowhere near 100MM subs.

And what fukking world do you live in wherein big ass asset purchases aren’t tied to revenue generation, thus payback analysis??? They didn’t buy $80 billion in non-revenue generating assets such as toilets for employees or some shyt..:childplease:
I never said sony was “desperate for cash”

You must be arguing with a cac tweet.

They are both trying to expand their audience for the same reason.

Console growth has stalled, the costs to run a console business keeps increasing.

The economics have changed, it’s no longer worth it to keep games locked down on one platform.
 

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Console growth has stalled, the costs to run a console business keeps increasing.

Time to cutoff last gen. Broke nikkaz need to upgrade.

Once GTA6 drops, there will be a big uptick. Glad the game will be current Gen.

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Going PC hurts Sony more than it does Microsoft though.

Microsoft = third in sales, has a seeming plan to focus gaming everywhere and to grow Xcloud and streaming that may forestall needing to produce a console someday.

Sony = second in sales, their bread and butter is SIE ever since their ability to make decent technology outside of PlayStation fell off.

Sony needs their console to be successful more than Microsoft does. In the '90s, Sony was all good because they were selling Walkmans and Discmans and TVs for profit along with PlayStation. They had the cash to buy an American movie studio for well over value only a few years after they bought CBS Records. Now we're asking if that Bungie purchase was too much money for them.
 

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Phil setup Xbox hardware's own demise

1. Gamepass which has cannablized games sales on Xbox hardware and revenue from retail sales.
2. Promised new exclusives for years and nothing but cap
3. Convinced Nutella to give him billions for not studio, but entire Publisher acquisitions, in order to increase Gamepass subs (Didn't materialize) and now we're here.

How this man still has a job is epitome cac privilege
 

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Meach and Titans bullet storm of sony concern threads in the next hour



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