| aLkaLiNE said: They can try what they want but truthfully, moving away from one behemoth in the console space (Sony) to go fight a losing battle against the other behemoth (Steam) won't grant them access to domination on a global scale like they've been trying to achieve for years now. Honestly MS is not a gaming company and the overall gaming population just doesn't prefer them. I don't think this is something they will be able to change. I also think these moves and the more recently transparent agenda is a bad play toward any potential gamers that might have been interested in the xbox before. They're sacrificing one base for another that they've had even less success in. Just drop out already, dammit MS d: You're that smelly poop kid. |
I smell butthurt, because I don't remember the same happening when it was the 360 that was around... not to mention they stopped trying after 2010...
MS could just say "screw it" and buy either of the companies with all the spare change they are hiding in other countries... to be honest, they are the only tech company short of HP and Dell that I still like a bit (and even then my support of them has dwindled)...
Whatever happened to the world domination plans they had in the 90s?
Also, if they buy Sega, I hope they only buy the IPs and not the brand... or just the gaming division... the other companies under Sega are one hell of a trainwreck (I'd like to see MS try and say TMS from crashing down and burning) and if I had to pick a company, I'd rather them buy Mistwalker and retake Tecmo before offering it to Tom in a silver platter for all his troubles...
| Puppyroach said: It has been their plan since the Windows Phone 8 days and when the made "Xbox" the brand for their games across all platforms. Now they have unified the platform in Windows 10 and this ambitious plan can really come into play. So I agree and I actually don't think that many gamers have a comparable PC spec-wise so the X1 becomes the perfect gaming PC at an affordable price while the gamer get the PC version anyway for free when buying games. And I look forward to the next Xbox, a tablet that doubles as a midway PC AND a dedicated gaming machine :). |
It's the purpose of the company. Gates was very clear when he said he wanted "a Microsoft machine in every living room" and they won't do anything else until they achieve that. They won't stop until this happens.
I just hope that the next console is powerful and not a tablet. A PC and dedicated machine with a dedicated link seems great to me...
