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[chakkra]

Machiavellian said:

chakkra said:

I am on the opposite side on this one. They have been working with AMD for literally decades and have never felt the need to announce their partnership so, why now?

My theory? The stock market. The are worried about the impact that the news of their console hardware division shutting down would have in the stock market, so they have to maintain the facade, and kill it slowly.

To summarize, I don't care what any of these "insiders" say, and I don't care what Microsoft says either. I look at what they are doing, and for the past year, every decision they have made seemed to have been designed to slow down their console sales.

Lol, do you really believe Xbox is hardware is driving MS stock price, I highly doubt it.  If MS came out today and said we will not do next gen hardware there would not be a blip in their stock price.  Hell, if anything it might go up because a lot of investors probably believe they should concentrate more on AI, software and Azure.

No, MS stated their agreement with AMD because they wanted to let people know they are still doing something but it will not be a traditional console because right now they are getting owned by Nintendo and Sony and that probably not going to change anytime soon.  

Hey, you might be right. There might be no impact at all, heck, it might even go up, as you said, but if there is one thing certain abougt the stock market, is that nobody really knows exactly how is going to react in the end, so no, I don't think they would risk to announce it just like that.

And you might be right, maybe they are still planning to release another console as a niche product (with no intention to sell more than a couple of millions) but I think it would still be part of the phasing out process that they have already started.