Comment on Microsoft Plans Major Job Cuts at Xbox Gaming Division

DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Yeah with their “everything is an Xbox” nonsense it’s pretty clear they want to focus on the platform, marketplace where you buy games. Playing them is kind of second. I’m sure they’ll still have something, but it’s going to be more geared towards cloud streaming, pc, handhelds, and “play where you want” so they can just do the digital side. I wouldn’t be surprised if they get partners like Asus to build boxes now.

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  • nostalgicgamerz@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    So we’ve always have had 3 competitors. Who is going to replace them?

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    • Valencia@sh.itjust.works ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Xbox will still exist as a platform, just not the console. It’ll probably just be stuff like the Xbox ally x; Xbox partners with brands to sell hardware with cut down versions of windows that has access to 3rd party markets like steam and such, but a major emphasis on the Xbox/windows store.

      Either way, I don’t think there has to be a third platform if Xbox went away. PC looked kinda shaky there for a moment in the '00s/'10s, but at this point it seems pretty well poised to become the dominant platform. Xbox and PlayStation already port games to steam and even GoG. Nintendo is the harder nut to crack, I’m not sure what’d it take for them to get out of the hardware business. I read somewhere they have enough cash on hand to operate at a loss for like a decade or something.

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    • Buelldozer@lemmy.today ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Likely no one. I wouldn’t be surprised if the next generation of consoles is the last one.

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