sales2099 said:
goopy20 said:
No offense but I think you're just not looking at the bigger picture and understand how big a business Cloud services is. I'm not trying to debate or convince anyone here, just read this if you don't believe me...
"Microsoft is no longer a “Windows” company. It’s no longer an “Xbox” company. It’s a cloud company, just like Amazon."
https://www.equities.com/news/microsoft-has-quietly-made-the-switch-of-the-century
MS's stock have been skyrocketing because of their ventures in Cloud computing, while the Xbox division's revenue is dropping $1 billion year-over-year and console sales basically crashed. MS's console business is falling apart but their gaming services are still blooming. From a business perspective, it only makes sense that that's going to be their main focus moving forward, and not selling their next gen consoles. If that was the case they would be using their 1st party studios to makes Series X exclusives, launch a $399 console and try to dethrone Sony. But that's not what they're doing. They're making all their 1st party games cross-gen, practically give them away for free on GP, and will probably launch a $599 console instead.
They already said they don't want to get into another format war with Nintendo and Sony and are looking at Amazon and Google as their main competitors. It's because they're already looking past next gen. GP subscribers are simply a lot more valuable for MS and their Xcloud vision, compared to the number of next gen consoles they'll sell.
And no, I don't think MS will do great as a subscription service. If we do actually get a future where we will all be gaming in the Cloud, Sony and Nintendo will just copy paste GP and it will still be about which company has the best exclusives. MS will no doubt make a fortune by hosting their Cloud platform, though.
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So this entire thread isn’t about gamers thoughts on cloud gaming. It’s just a Trojan horse to take a dump on MS, got it.
None of what you said is true, but let’s face it too many people all ready covered your shaky at best points
(Thanks for ignoring my reply where I proved you misrepresented Phil’s quotes on cloud gaming, especially where he said it’s just a convenience and never will be as responsive).
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This is about cloud gaming and if people want it. Personally, I don't but I'm sure there are plenty of people who will dig it. And I'm sorry if you somehow got your feelings hurt but I think you're taking it to personal. In the end MS is a behemoth of a tech company and their decisions do make a lot of sense when you consider how much they're invested in Cloud tech and how much of their profits are coming from it.
In a recent interview Ted Price asked Phil how giving their exclusives away for free on GP can work financially, and Phil didn't know what to say. He says something like "It does make sense but that's just me as a dude saying it does. If more people play more games and more hours, we all win". What kind of rainbow and unicorn BS is that lol?
http://interactive.libsyn.com/head-of-xbox-phil-spencer 00:38 mark
In any case, MS is all in when it comes to Cloud gaming and reaching more gamers. We'll just have to wait and see what that means for Series X and their regular console business.
