Pachter: Microsoft is preparing for life after Xbox

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theprof00 said:

super_etecoon said:
I bet there were analysts who claimed that radio would die when tv came along, and that tv would die when the Internet came along. Oh analysts...you're nothing but forum fanboys with larger fonts for your threads.

Don't look at it like that. Look at it like this:
Tv absolutely did crush radio. Ratings are nowhere near what they used to be in its prime. However, radio evolved and has enjoyed a resurgence through new technologies and ideas. Despite this, tv killed off a lot of radio parts. Tv pretty much singlehandedly changed the way elections were ran. Tv killed off strong singers with bad presentation (unattractive, no dance moves, etc). Tv killed off radio story programs. Radio survived, but a lot of things that existed because of radio, were killed off by the evolution to tv.

What pachter is saying is inevitable. Just the idea of streaming itself is going to revolutionize the livingroom. We are just getting into the streaming era. Things are going to change, and not everyone will be happy. But it won't matter because 'the majority will be happy'.

Yeah...I see where you're coming from.  And of all the manufucturers to step away from the console business, I believe Microsoft is probably the closest.  But this guy has been making terrible predictions for quite a while now.  It makes me think that whatever he says is complete bs.  I think he has too much of a vested interest in the outcome of his predictions, both in how it relates to his job, and also probably in regards to his own personal investments.