diffusionx
Gold Member
Bill Gates is no longer with the company. If the narrative is Xbox has no games or bad games why would dropping their hardware and going 3rd party be beneficial? Why would Sony and Nintendo accept Game pass? Why would MS choose to be beholden to smaller companies to provide a platform for their software? Xbox is also another vector for their Direct X API. There is no logical reason for MS to turn to Sony and Nintendo to distribute their software when they already own a hardware platform to do so and make additional money off of third party licenses.
1. Irrelevant - my point is that Xbox has always been a weird fit for the company, from day one, and it doesn't fit today any better than it did 20 years ago.
2. I didn't say anything about narrative and it doesn't matter. If they don't have games, then operating a hardware console platform makes even less sense. I do think they have games though FWIW.
3. Sony already accepts 3rd party subscription services like EA Play
4. Sony and Nintendo might be smaller companies but their gaming platforms are far bigger than Xbox, and MS also has Windows.
5. All these Xbox games, and I do mean all, come out on PC anyway, and they all use DX there so I don't think Xbox is doing a lot of heavy lifting there.
6. It can make sense if it gives them access to a greater audience, which it does, and it can make sense if it relieves them of operating in an arena (hardware) that isn't in their strength, which it does. Sony and Nintendo sell a lot of peoples' games and a lot of them are very successful so I don't see why MS couldn't do the same thing. It's like a company maintaining a game engine, there's a reason why a lot of them are ditching them for UE, and it's because it doesn't play to their strengths and the advantages no longer outweigh the downsides.
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