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thismeintiel on 23 October 2015
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bananaking21 said:
zero129 said:

Xbox live is free on PC. Id say a platform that has around 50-60 million users by now combined and clearly will grow is pretty successful.

MS doesnt need to make hardware anymore, just look at how many companys are willing to make steambox's id imagine the would be even more companys willing to make xbox consoles since this was MS's original plan for the xbox and they never really wanted to make the hardware themselfs they just wanted a way to get their platform in front of peoples tv's.


but the real money maker here is XBL subs on the XB1 and 360. if they ditch that, then where are they going to make money from? they can try and support XBL on PC and try competing with Steam, GOG and origin. but they wont be able to win that fight. 

I really don't understand why MS continues this strategy.  They always see a new market that is exploding, then come out with their own product, but only after 2-3 years of the market leader and a few others in that market making a foothold and decide they can take that market by storm.  Throw millions/billions down the drain to advertise the crap out of their version.  But, it's always too late, people already like what they have.  Zune, Bing, Windows Mobile.  It may have been Xbox listed there, but Sony screwed up so bad last gen it allowed them to get a foothold for a gen.  And if they are truly going to get away from gaming HW, I see Live on PC following the same path.  Then again, they may try and have Live automatically login and start displaying ads when you boot up Windows to make up for it.  Though, I doubt people will be too thrilled with that.