Microsoft explored selling or spinning off Xbox after Phil Spencer's exit, according to a new report.

Original report comes from the paywalled The Information, that they tried to sell to private equity for $100B-$150B, but that it was short lived and fell through. This backs what a lot of us have been thinking based on the moves Sharma has been making, that they track with a sell-off of the Xbox brand.

  • ozymandias117@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    13 hours ago

    Xbox was only created to help vendor lock-in for Windows.

    The X in Xbox was DirectX, the goal was to get developers off of OpenGL.

    With the rise of Vulkan, and DX12 being extremely similar, there’s little reason for Xbox to exist from Microsoft’s perspective

    • Buddahriffic@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      10 hours ago

      Not to mention proton and dx2vk handle playing directx games on Linux more reliably than most linux native games (at least in my experience… If a game doesn’t work, odds are it’s using the steam linux runtime and switching to proton gets it to work).