• JensSpahnpasta@feddit.org
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    1 day ago

    It’s insane how Microsoft is handling Xbox:

    • They have their own console and Windows
    • They bought everything they could and now own most of the biggest gaming franchises outside of Nintendo: Activision-Blizzard. Minecraft. Halo. Call of Duty. Warcraft. Starcraft. Diablo. Candy Crush. Elder Scrolls. Fallout. id software. Bethesda.

    They have everything in place and are still getting slapped around by Valve and Sony and are now talking about shutting down everything?

    • Broken@lemmy.ml
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      17 hours ago

      Yes. Correct. Because they don’t know what they’re doing.

      Just look at how they’ve positioned themselves in recent years: One, we always want to have the most powerful console to be the best. Two, we want people to be able to play anywhere with just a controller and no console required. Talk about a kingdom divided.

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      More than likely they’ll just sunset Xbox the platform and rent you the ability to play games on the cloud using your phone, smart TV or computer. And all those franchises will be rentable first, then maybe buyable some day later.

      Among other things they have huge data centers that are going to be unused come AI collapse - they just need to figure out how to run games on those GPUs, as they’re very very different from gaming GPUs.