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Bizwas said:

G2ThaUNiT said:

Just finished watching it. Pretty much nothing we didn't already know lol. The entire viewpoint is still from an a "consoles as a walled garden" mindset though rather than focusing on the entirely different path that Xbox wants to be. 

To be fair, part of his point is to suggest that XBOX (as in the XBOX division) precisely ended up on a path it DIDN’T want to be on; that the XBOX division’s hand now is being forced by Big Microsoft. That is not a novel take to be pioneered by Colin, I agree, but I still feel he has done a solid summary and raises some good questions that point out how often focus and strategy have changed in recent years.

Definitely, but that also isn't something we didn't already know and has been repeated fairly often over the past year. Xbox isn't making such drastic changes out of the goodness of their heart. If it wasn't for the purchases and changes that the division has made in recent years, not only would they have most likely ended up like Sega by now, but worse, they could've left the gaming industry entirely.

But what Xbox is doing has been part of a broader change in the industry. You don't really see many third-party exclusives as you used to. And for the few that you do see, they're either very shortly timed or release on at least one platform like PC. Square has now abandoned the thought of exclusivity, you don't see anymore exclusives from the likes of Sega, Capcom, etc because no one can afford to. Everyone is trying to reach as big of an audience as possible. Sony certainly isn't releasing their games on PC out of the goodness of their heart either. Xbox is just having to take the bigger brunt of these wider industry changes since they're a platform holder. The future of gaming is pointing towards further multiplatform.

It was a good summary video for sure, but that's all it really was. A summary. Without the full knowledge of what Xbox's longterm hardware plans are, which leaks have pointed to an open platform on a plethora of first-party and third-party OEM consoles and handheld devices, it's too early to make declarative statements like what Colin is making of Xbox flying too close to the sun. Which he does throw at the end there about him being wrong before lol. 

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