This is going to upset 10s of people
Microsoft suddenly kills its movies and TV store on Xbox and Windows
Submitted 1 month ago by misk@sopuli.xyz to technology@lemmy.zip
https://www.theverge.com/news/709737/microsoft-movies-tv-store-closure-xbox-windows
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MeatsOfRage@lemmy.world 1 month ago
BlueLineBae@midwest.social 1 month ago
There’s dozens of us! DOZENS!!!
Hirom@beehaw.org 1 month ago
Hopefully they focus their resources whatever game studios remain.
Just make easy to access movies and films from other sources on XBox, we don’t need a Microsoft monopoly on streaming.
youCanCallMeDragon@lemmy.world 1 month ago
The real story is why they ever thought a movie store on Xbox was a good idea
someguy3@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Xbox One was supposed to be your one stop shop for entertainment.
BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk 1 month ago
I use mine for prime. Everything else is libreelec though.
relativestranger@feddit.nl 1 month ago
it wasn’t a terrible idea, just the implementations of it–in the efforts to extract maximum profits.
chiliedogg@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Back in 2006/2007, it wasn’t a terrible idea. I actually used it a bit after I dropped cable in college to buy shows that I wanted to watch.
irotsoma@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
It would have been good if it had been made all that usable. Many people were looking for a place to have all of their media in one. Smart TVs weren’t the default like now, so they were trying to take the market from things like Roku and Apple TV and such. Still could have been useful if they had made it better than the crappy Smart TV interfaces (which wouldn’t have taken much), but they never did, so it never really caught on.
dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
I have an apple tv. If steam made an apple tv like steam box that played games, watched movies and tv shows and youtube id get one. I know many millenials wouldnt mind that for a tv
forrgott@lemmy.sdf.org 1 month ago
This is exactly what I use my steam deck for, so yeah, I’m totally on board! 👍