| Mafioso said: The Xbox console business will continue because it's not about fanboy wars, its about a Windows presence in the livingroom. It always has been. It was to fight off Apple from clawing into the space 15+ yrs ago. Besides, what makes you think in an era where these companies are getting gamers to lfork up subscription revenue that they would have any desire to exit such a business? Think about that: Sony and MS are getting gamers to PAY A YEARLY FEE for the luxury of fully using the devices they already sold you, and people are doing it. Don't kid yourselves. They didn't just assume the undertaking of manufacturing Surface, to let go of their biggest CE brand that sells a ton of software and is one of the few of their business with a mindshare amongst day-to-day , non-enterprise consumers. The idea that MS is the least commited to console gaming comes from a twisted fanboy mentality. No one puts more money into their first party IP than MS does for Halo. Many steps they've taken this gen say otherwise too- their investment in Killer Instinct, experimenting with different models (F2P Fable Legends), purchasing Gears of War IP , the well oiled Forza franchise putting out quality software, the investment into new AAA IP like Quantum Break, RECORE etc... Fanboys need to stop being delusional simply because MS doesn't play by their rules. The Xbox is a platform above just being a console, one that will be open to 200M+ Windows 10 machines. The potential of that alone when you consider there are 125M+ active Steam users(all gamers!) is better than any in gaming. Users are there already, you dont have to wait for unit sales to sell gaming software! Anyone can buy an 'Xbox' game. Anyone can connect to their friends and rack up Achievevos. That is not a commitment to gamers? Is that not a commitment to the Xbox brand? |
The only reason that Microsoft, is releasing games on PC, is because they made a lot of mistakes, and the Xbox Division, don't have enought Money to continue Bleeding, they will release the games on PC, to try some kind of Extra Profit, but with the sacrifice of Units of Hardware, Live subscribers, and Software licensing.
They had to throw Kinect Away, they have spend more than 2.5 Billions just on Minecraft, while they would be able to do something much better with 2.5 Billions, and they also are selling Xbox One, cheaper than Playstation 4, when the 2 consoles atleast have the same production costs.
Microsoft, have a lot of money but cannot bleed Money, here we are talking about Microsoft, start releasing games as a third party company, because now, they are doing exactly the same thing, releasing as a Third party for PC, and the only difference is that the game is Exclusive for their Store, is like EA, releasing a game on "EA'S Machine" and making it Exclusive for Origin, this would still be a Multiplataform tittle on PC.
Just like all the games that are avaliables on Steam Machines, are Multiplataform games for PC, and not "Valve Exclusives".
