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Although PlayStation is definitely doing way better than Xbox right now, let's not pretend they're making a whole ton of great decisions over there.
The Mythbusters fiasco woke me up to how easily I could lose my digital library on Playstation. Got myself completely removed from that ecosystem before I threw away any more money on rental games with store bought prices.
Juat what I wanted to say myself.
Just make console. And then sell games for that console.
How hard can that be?
Really hard. Most of the companies who have ever sold a console either went out of business or gave up on selling consoles.
Better idea: Buy tens of major companies, run them to the ground, then shut them down even if they're doing well.
Trust me bro, a few more years of this strategy and Xbox will surely be on top!
Embrace, extend, extinguish.
Someone should maybe tell them that they shouldn't do that to themselves.
They should have just built a gaming platform on Windows, the platform they owned. The one everyone was playing games on already.
Why would they do that? They make more profit selling a Windows license for your PC than they ever would selling consoles.
They’re never going to get a cut of the profits from 3rd party games on Windows the way they would with a console. The second they try to force every Windows game to pay is the second they all switch over to SteamOS.
See, the issue is that those developers are already paying Valve to be on Steam for Windows. Paying to be on Windows as well would be double taxation, and there’s no advantage to that after Valve gave everyone an outlet (Proton) to move everyone’s libraries to Linux and SteamOS.
So if Microsoft couldn’t charge anyone license fees to sell games for a Windows-based console, why spend all the money to develop one?
nah... screw them
Buuuut how do we squeeze all the engagement out of the consumer? And keep them on reoccurring billing around the engagement? And cram in adds and last make a passable game that it all stems from. But we're not going to try too hard on that last one.
'Investors disliked that'
The whole "this is an Xbox" stuff just shows how lost they are...
That and buying Activision Blizzard for 70 billion :/
Unrelated to the content, but:
And it is safe to say he not exactly sound convinced that Microsoft’s gaming leadership known what it is doing.
That's 2 or 3 errors in the second sentence of the article posted a day ago. They have editors, right!?
The editor:
"Oops, sorry, me make mistake. Me fix!"
And it safe to say he not exactly sound convinced that Microsoft’s gaming leadership know what it doing.
"All better now!"
Naa, it's chatbots all the way down.
Why coherent sentences adequate with the grammer used in text when you can just slapped words together to made points?
This silly line has probably done more damage to how people treat English than anyone realizes.
This silly line change way I SeaWorld.
microsoft 'lost their way' years ago in their relentless pursuit of profit.
Says the guy who won't release PS games on PC, the most common gaming platform?
"Former" I doubt he has much of a say in the matter.
At least one thing Xbox is getting right is its “Play Anywhere” licensing. I bought FH6 and I love the fact that I can play it on my Xbox in the living room, or on my PC in the office and functionally there’s no difference (except online being free with PC, but that’s another story). They learned that it’s not about the platform, but the games.
At least domestically in Japan, PC gaming is still a very niche and expensive hobby. It's cheaper than a decade ago when I got here, but computer literacy isn't great. I hate that decision, but it makes sense for their domestic market
this post was submitted on 18 Jun 2026
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