shikamaru317 said:
He believed that thing about Phil saying they would leave gaming if Gamepass failed to hit it's lofty goals from this graph by FY 2027:
While they definitely weren't hitting those goals without ABK, the whole point of the ABK acquisition was to get them back on track towards these Gamepass Growth goals. Xbox isn't going anywhere anytime soon. |
It also misses the further context in the questioning where Phil clarifies that it is more about Mobile growth and that they may leave the industry entirely if they can't grow significantly in Mobile and PC (coincidentally the two things they're trying to claim they're only acquiring ABK for to get regulators off their ass about Cloud and Console).
It also misses even further context that this was in response to questioning from the FTC's lawyer so everything should be taken with a massive grain of salt because it's in Microsoft's best interest to pretend like they're a dying puppy to the FTC and make exaggerated claims such as the above that if they can't get ABK then they're doomed.
Just like Jim Ryan saying PlayStation would be doomed without ABK. It was nonsense, with or without ABK, they aren't leaving, they just want to pretend like they are for the purposes of getting ABK. And now it's irrelevant because they have ABK 
