Endgadget: Microsoft should exit the console business

[winb83]

It clear most of the industry want them out of here at this point lol

The Cricket Wireless of gaming compan

Can you give examples of people in the industry expressing they want this other than concern troll takes from tech blogs and PlayStation fanboys that want them gone because console warz?

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

Can you give examples of people in the industry expressing they want this other than concern troll takes from tech blogs and PlayStation fanboys that want them gone because console warz?

You never heard of xbox tax?

 

[winb83]

You never heard of xbox tax?

I’m just looking to see all these rational minded people making the case that one company ceasing making hardware leaving effectively a single company making high end home consoles is great for the industry and consumers.

When has a single company dominating a particular field ever lead to better conditions for anyone except that company? In fact it pretty much almost always leads to a worse future.

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

I’m just looking to see all these rational minded people making the case that one company ceasing making hardware leaving effectively a single company making high end home consoles is great for the industry and consumers.

When has a single company dominating a particular field ever lead to better conditions for anyone except that company? In fact it pretty much almost always leads to a worse future.

 

[Cakebatter]

Fuq Engadget, but they may be right. Microsoft treats all new endeavors like a venture capitalist: Throw a ton of cash at it initially, then when it fails to show short term success, bail on it (Except in the most messy way). Microsoft hasn't made any real investments in their console business since 2013. They seem to be bailing on Surface already too. Hell Microsoft has bailed on Windows Mixed Reality despite a massive government contract for Hololens 2. Satya Nadella just isn't interested in making hardware.

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

Fuq Engadget, but they may be right. Microsoft treats all new endeavors like a venture capitalist: Throw a ton of cash at it initially, then when it fails to show short term success, bail on it (Except in the most messy way). Microsoft hasn't made any real investments in their console business since 2013. They seem to be bailing on Surface already too. Hell Microsoft has bailed on Windows Mixed Reality despite a massive government contract for Hololens 2. Satya Nadella just isn't interested in making hardware.

They keep trying to ease their stan base into it. Make them comfortable with the idea

 

[Boolean]

I’m a Sony stan through and through but I see no benefits as a consumer for M$FT to stop being competitive with them

 

[winb83]

The reality is the same crowd that previously said Microsoft should straight up just exit the gaming business is the same crowd now calling for them to become a third party because they realize that with Activision Blizzard and ZeniMax Microsoft carries some relevancy to the industry as a whole.

Suddenly these people who previously just wanted them gone are concerned about the most valuable company in the world making money and not losing it on hardware. In reality if they wanna burn cash trying to turn Xbox around that doesn’t hurt anybody or even show a noticeable blip on their balance sheet.

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

because they realize that with Activision Blizzard and ZeniMax Microsoft carries some relevancy to the industry as a whole.

Those games will continue being multiplatform anyway. No one cares

You just said yesterday gamepass is trash and their games

 

[Cakebatter]

They keep trying to ease their stan base into it. Make them comfortable with the idea

That's not stanning, that straight gaslighting. Telling Xbox console owners that they will benefit from Microsoft porting first party games over to PS5 is like a wife telling her husband that her sleeping with other men will benefit him, due to the extra sexual experience she gains.

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

That's not stanning, that straight gaslighting. Telling Xbox console owners that they will benefit from Microsoft porting first party games over to PS5 is like a wife telling her husband that her sleeping with other men will benefit him, due to the extra sexual experience she gains.

Xbox Series Adam22

 

[Arcavian]

Who the fukk would take business advice from Engadget

 

[ORDER_66]

The reality is the same crowd that previously said Microsoft should straight up just exit the gaming business is the same crowd now calling for them to become a third party because they realize that with Activision Blizzard and ZeniMax Microsoft carries some relevancy to the industry as a whole.

Suddenly these people who previously just wanted them gone are concerned about the most valuable company in the world making money and not losing it on hardware. In reality if they wanna burn cash trying to turn Xbox around that doesn’t hurt anybody or even show a noticeable blip on their balance sheet.

but microsoft did this to themselves no one told them to spend 80B to try to handicap sony that was phil and co that made that decision... and now nutella and the shareholders wanna recoup... if phil just focused on making games instead of this game pass bullshyt and trying to be netflix's competition and being a GAME COMPANY they wouldn't be in this position now...

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

but microsoft did this to themselves no one told them to spend 80B to try to handicap sony that was phil and co that made that decision... and now nutella and the shareholders wanna recoup... if phil just focused on making games instead of this game pass bullshyt and trying to be netflix's competition and being a GAME COMPANY they wouldn't be in this position now...

For over 10 years they focused on everything but putting out games

 

[ORDER_66]

For over 10 years they focused on everything but putting out games

EXACTLY.... this is all on them... they doing the most and failing...

DIT: could have had dope games and built up their library but nope. just focus on gamepass and acquiring game studios... remember that game with the dragon riding that looked promising and they cancelled outta the blue. perfect dark is still DOA... i mean wtf...