Phill Spencer Denies Rumors of Xbox Brand Leaving the Console Market!

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KungKras said:

Mr Puggsly said:

Here's the real question, do you think they're going to make a TV media device?

That's what Xbox really is, its their successful way into the living room. Five years from now I anticipate a newer Xbox One.

Remember that the Xbox was a reaction to Ken Kutaragis plan to take over the living room with the Playstation platform and eventually disrupt Microsoft's PC OS business. Sony doesn't have this as their console strategy anymore so Microsoft doesn't have to "take over the living room" anymore. Smartphones and tablets are a much bigger threat to Microsoft right now, so that's where they are going to put all their effort.

I think they might use the Xbox to make windows 10 media PCs to compete against smart TVs.

smartphone and tablets in there current form are quite obsolete it's a matured market with very few and minor improvement lately... It needs a rebirth....

 

IMO the next big thing is home servers/cloud... Where people have mini super computers that take care of everything tech related... Diminishing the need of powerful multiple devices.... Just one super computers and many terminals talking to each other... With possibility to share compute power creating local clouds