| JCGamer55 said: Microsoft is definitely not looking at the videogame industry in the traditional way. I agree that they are looking outside the console manufacturers and are expanding their business to compete with Microsoft's actual competitors: Google, Apple, Amazon... |
Another thing I believe people are missing the picture is that MS had to start developing their First party games on the PC. The reason is in order for game pass to reach the number of subs to make the service viable they need more than the amount of user that a console hardware will acquire. MS needs at least 150 million subs or better to make gamepass work the way they are probably projecting. MS isn't in the console hardware war anymore then are in the service business and the hardware is secondary to the service. They will still develop hardware because locking in those subs through hardware is still a good business plan but I doubt they will lose leader it anymore. Instead they will do like their surface line and other hardware bits. Create high end hardware to compete with their competitor but still push their services to as many platforms as possible because revenue from services is a steady stream that pays for development even R/D.
