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[DonFerrari]

shikamaru317 said:

Intrinsic said:
This makes no sense to me..... I can uderstand having studios develop exclusive games for you t put on a service..... but I can not understand the logic in trying to double down into a console industry that has on average not sold more than 300M conoles in any given generation over the last 30 years.

If they have money like that to burn, then If i were them I would become a publisher instead.

The goal of the console now is to bring people into their ecosystem for when streaming takes over and traditional consoles die in a couple of generations. This is part of a larger strategy to be the eventual market leader of game streaming services. 

And launching the console before buying some devs and without no experience will do wonders for them =p