Digital Foundry thinks Xbox strategy is shifting away from the consoles "Doesnt look great"

[Puff]

Microfart leaving the console market isn’t necessarily a bad thing. Maybe that's why Sony signed the contract?

 

[Eternal_Wings]

Good begone Microsoft. The world will become a little bit more peaceful, at least the gaming-industry. Bye nobody is going to miss this scumbag company.

 

[Airbus]

 

[ethomaz]

Let’s back to 2017-2018 everybody here said the same.

LTTP Digital Foundry.

 

[anonpuffs]

What took them so long?

 

[Cool hand luke]

 

[flaccidsnake]

For the price of the Activision merger, MS could have distributed 233M Series S consoles.

 

[Banana]

For the price of the Activision merger, MS could have distributed 233M Series S consoles.

They could have owned a decade of COD games outright. That would have made more sense.

 

[Fenton]

They are still making the next gen Xbox, the brand is pretty strong in NA (American racists and dumbass patriots help a lot). Too afraid to quit and concede the console market to Sony. They know they can't outsell PS in any generation.

Next Console Generation May Start In 2028, Xbox Court Docs Say

This would come eight years after the launch of the PS5 and Xbox Series X|S.

www.gamespot.com

 

[Eternal_Wings]

They are still making the next gen Xbox, the brand is pretty strong in NA (American racists and dumbass patriots help a lot). Too afraid to quit and concede the console market to Sony. They know they can't outsell PS in any generation.

Next Console Generation May Start In 2028, Xbox Court Docs Say

This would come eight years after the launch of the PS5 and Xbox Series X|S.

www.gamespot.com

It could be a Cloud-Only console. I wouldn’t bet on a traditional hardware. Microsoft never cared about Hardware. They want just one thing: binding people to subscription services.

 

[Dr Bass]

At some point you have to figure they would give up. You’d think.

 

[Entropi]

At some point you have to figure they would give up. You’d think.

Like Jobs said: They are opportunistic. They keep coming back.

The fact that they can operate on losses forever until the competition screws up means they’re not going anywhere soon.

 

[Nhomnhom]

They could have owned a decade of COD games outright. That would have made more sense.

Now they own it forever and all the profits go to them regardless of where it's made.

Money hating is a terrible strategy in comparison to acquisitions.

The money was not expend on some exclusivity that will expire, it was spent on studios and IPs that now MS owns. Bethesda and ABK studios are drastically better and more relevant than the stuff MS had previously.