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“Everything is an Xbox” now. Even the PlayStation is living on borrowed time. The way Xbox is run right now may not be very good, but the vision for what Xbox was had to change. They were just an earlier casualty of the way things are changing than their competition.

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Toga65@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Why? What about their strategy right now it because of the way things are changing?

None of it is. It is because of mismanagement that happened with Don Matrick and the OG Xbox one focusing on fucking cable hookups and banning their users from borrowing physical games.

That corporate garbage in Xbox NEVER fully disappeared and now they’re reaping what they sowed.

Also not releasing an exclusive game worth buying since before 2014 is a wild strategy.

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- ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  
  Why? What about their strategy right now it because of the way things are changing?
  
  Accepting other storefronts on their platform going forward, choosing to instead make their money via Game Pass and third party publishing. An Activision or Bethesda acquisition made great strategic sense when you needed to lock up exclusives for the way consoles used to work, but in the time it took for Activision to go through, they realized that strategy no longer makes sense. It’s a huge paradigm shift to decide to no longer take a cut of every “Xbox” game sold the way that Nintendo and Sony do, for now, but it’s in their best interest long term to be the first to do so.
  
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TwinTitans@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I don’t see it that way at all. Xbox took their foot off the gas when Kinect came out and has been dying from 1000 cuts. What was working for Xbox - they stopped doing. This isn’t the future, this is them throwing anything they can at the wall and see what sticks.

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- ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Yeah, but that’s something you do when times are changing and you need to adapt. Sony investors are already asking if there will be a new PlayStation or if they’ll just go to PC. (There will be at least a traditional PS6, but Microsoft doesn’t have the same luxury.)
  
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