Has the Xbox Series Already had Their Peak Year?

[Norion]

OneTime said:

Norion said:

Though the one huge positive is they did manage to get Activision Blizzard in the end so shifting towards being a publisher and putting less importance on console hardware going forward is probably the right move long term.

Maybe, but Microsoft didn't need to pay $70bln (or whatever it was) to be a games publisher.  They could have just hired some devs.

At $70 a game, they need to sell a lot of games to make that money back...  And although people say: "they bought the IP" or "the back catalogue", punters have already bought those games, so MS still need to make new games to sell...

The value of now owning IPs like COD is so huge that I do think long term the purchase will be good for Microsoft. Gaming is a huge market and with Activision Blizzard they now have a firmly entrenched absolutely huge position in that market.