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[–] JensSpahnpasta@feddit.org 65 points 21 hours ago (3 children)

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?

[–] sturmblast@lemmy.world 62 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

As a long time IT guy... this is how Microsoft does everything

[–] Jeremyward@lemmy.world 11 points 15 hours ago

🌍👨‍🚀🔫👨‍🚀.meme

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 5 points 14 hours ago

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.

[–] Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world 26 points 21 hours ago

They thoroughly shit the bed, it's an astonishing display of incompetence.