| thismeintiel said: I'd say it's more like they are shifting to Windows gaming, leveraging their Xbox fans to do, rather than pumping Xbox in a larger thing. You don't spend less and less money on something you're growing larger. Funny, I only remember him specifically speaking of Xbox. They must have more things less successful and less known than the Xbox brand. Wonder why he picked that one? Hmm. |
And nothing says shifting off of console gaming like releasing two new consoles. Also, you have no idea how much money they are spending, for all we know the Scorpio alone will have a higher cost than all the marketing deals they made last gen or this gen. You're speaking factually about assumptions you're making to fit your agenda :)
Gates, the founder and former CEO of Microsoft, said he’s been helping new CEO Satya Nadella transition into his new leadership role and that he would support Nadella if the new CEO proposed a spinoff of one of Microsoft’s units.
But Gates said he didn’t foresee either Bing, the company’s search engine division, or Xbox, its gaming division, as potential stand-alone companies because they are part of Microsoft’s long-term strategy.
"We're taking PC gaming and Xbox gaming and bringing those a lot closer together," he said. "The power of the graphics chips means you can do great games there.
"So I'm sure Satya and the team will look at that. It's up to them. We're going to have an overall gaming strategy so it's not as obvious as you might think."
Like I said, it was nothing more than an endorsement for his new CEO. And he talked about Xbox because he was asked a question by someone in the audience about Xbox, and Bing. No offense, but maybe try looking into stuff you see on the Internets instead of just taking headlines you see at face value. A lot of gaming sites spun this the same way you are, for hits of course. But ignorance is no excuse.
