I’m pretty sure they’re in liquidation mode right now. Everything at Microsoft is being sacrificed on the altar of AI
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Ep1cFac3pa1m@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I could understand doing this if your brand was thriving, but this just feels like trying to squeeze money out of a sinking business instead of fixing the problems that are sinking it.
Paradachshund@lemmy.today 1 day ago
tempest@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
It makes sense when you realize they paid bank for a bunch of IPs over the last 5 years and want to squeeze more out of it.
This is just them looking to make codblops the movie.
CosmoNova@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Their C-suites are in panic and know fuck all about games but they probably have seen one or two movies and have heard of Netflix. They probably proposed this because it‘s the only thing that makes sense to them in a foreign world that confuses them. It can only fail and will list likely churn out AI slop nobody wants to watch.
Zorque@lemmy.world 1 day ago
They may also think Disney or Skydance will buy them and theyll get to sail out the window on their golden parachutes.
Zexks@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
This right here. Hype up some ip then sell out and retire
breadsanta@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
C suite execs and defenestration… you may be onto something!
GreyEyedGhost@piefed.ca 1 day ago
This could provide some benefit if that wasn’t a metaphor.
end_stage_ligma@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Damn. Wait until they hear about Stremio.