They also said they were still committed to Zune and Windows Phone.
They probably weren't lying then or now, they are committed... for this quarter. When they read the numbers next quarter, well that's completely unrelated to today's commitments!
The writing is on the wall here, and it's plain to see. Also, you really can't trust anything that comes out of Phil Spencer's mouth.
If the goal is indeed for Xbox games to be on all platforms, then the Xbox platform is the only place they don't make money. Super low third-party sales, zero first-party sales. Only gamepass subscription money, which can't pay for all of their company buyouts, never mind paying off the 65 billion actiblizz purchase.
If gamepass is everywhere, then Xbox has no value to Microsoft, it only harms them.
It also exists to weaken any argument they might have to get governments to forcibly allow Microsoft stores on other platforms like the eu apple ruling.
It doesn't even matter if Gamepass or Xbox is currently profitable or not. It's about whether it can be more profitable. They originally thought the path to that was through exclusivity - now they don't (just as Sony changed course in regards to putting stuff on PC). Anyone who thinks that corporate decision-making is ever based on anything else is being naive.
The practical concern here for me is at what point does MS find it most profitable to stop supporting my ability to use my accumulated physical and digital xbox software. Another reason walled gardens suck.
Microsoft with gamepass (and other large game companies) are trying to do the gaming industry what Spotify did to the music industry. Blow the bottom out of it, get consumers used to subscriptions where money goes to massive companies not the artists actually doing the work, and let it all collapse into a heap so execs can do whatever they want because workers in the game industry have zero leverage left to dictate a higher quality of life since the path to profit has been carpet bombed by the finance industry (you don't want to work for Microsoft or Sony? Oh sorry yeah nobody else can make money in video games so tough luck finding a job somewhere else).
Why now? Well unlike the movie industry, video game nerds have a stunted awareness of the value of unions and worker organization so in plain daylight the rich can drive the entire industry off a cliff, fire a huge percentage of the workers and try to replace them with AI.... and worst comes to worst those companies will be in a great position to demand whatever they want from the remaining human labor after the dust settles even if the AI crap doesn't work.
Good old Disaster Capitalism.
Windows is everywhere but the Microsoft Surface products still have value to Microsoft. Or for that matter, Steam is everywhere but Valve still made the steam deck. There seems to be some value to software companies making hardware if only to help set the tone and introduce features or ideas they hope other companies who use their software will follow.
That said, I wonder if we won’t see the Xbox brand transition to software only with a line of gamer targeted Microsoft surfaces advertised as Xbox ready.
Those are the standards and those products have value. Buying an Xbox when Playstation has all games for both consoles makes no sense unless you just have to have Gamepass, specifically.
Also, you really can’t trust anything that comes out of Phil Spencer’s mouth.
That's really not a Phil Spencer thing, and more of a "You can tell any executive is lying, because their lips are moving" thing.
When a nintendo executive I generally trust that theirs truth somewhere past the branding. With Phil Spencer talks I'm just assuming the opposite of everything he says. It's a different thing, he really goes for the lies, to you, to the ftc, everyone
Satoru Iwata said they don't do layoffs, he even took pay cuts to attempt to balance their budgets and keep people on...then he died in 2015. Now Nintendo's credibility is in the toilet with the rest. The mistake you're making is trusting a company with shareholders, you really need to learn how this works......executives of publicly traded companies=fucking liars.
It’s almost as if Microsoft is a software company at heart and just wants to sell as many copies of their software as possible.
It's never a good sign when you have to say something like that...
"Any man who must say 'I am the King' is no true king."
Didn't Aragorn have to tell those ghost dudes he was the king to get them to fulfill their oath? 🤔
Yeah, and it went something like "Hay, I am TEH KING"
Ghost dudes be like "lolwut? Fuq, die bitch"
Aragorn blocks attack with Anduril "Oh shit, lmao, sorry, we gotchu bruh"
THEN he was teh kang.
Okay, but are the users still committed to buying them?
I mean, is that a real problem for Microsoft today?
I think Xbox is in its stronger times, so much that I actually want one lol
I hope they truly stick with the Xbox brand, it will be bad for all of us to only have Sony with the cake... (I mean we have Nintendo, but they have always been on their own).
The only reason they want their games on multiple platforms is so they can prove they're not trying to buy up studios for exclusivity. This is the main objective here folks. They don't care about being on more than one platform, they just don't want to fight the FTC again when they try to buy up sega, square enix, take2, embracer or whoever the fuck they want to buy next. Remember, this is the same arrogant bullshit company that wanted to buy Nintendo and got laughed out of the conference room.
I wish they would let you install windows on them, but then i guess id be buying games on steam not Microsoft store / gamepass
They should make Linux boxes.
Xbox is Microsoft so that'll literally never happen. They could make Windows 11 boxes though.
Xbox is Microsoft so that’ll literally never happen.
Microsoft already uses Linux and in fact even develops its own Linux distribution since quite some time because Windows just isn't good enough for certain tasks: https://github.com/microsoft/CBL-Mariner
Surface Duo is another Linux-based product by Microsoft.
Surface Duo uses Android though so I wouldn't put it in the same vein as Linux distros. Microsoft uses Linux for their web services like everyone else, but there is no way they're going to push people to using their competitor on consumer products. They want people to stay on Windows.
Surface Duo uses Android though
Android is Linux.
here is no way they’re going to push people to using their competitor on consumer products. They want people to stay on Windows.
Windows Phone is dead, Android is not.
One of the reasons that Steam Deck is better than Windows handheld PCs is because Valve can freely modify the graphics drivers. That's not possible with the proprietary Windows Radeon drivers.
Only yes. GNU software is irrelevant for anything being Linux (lots of other Linux distributions use no GNU software at all, most notably embedded variants using musl and Busybox). The kernel being a modified one is also irrelevant because almost every distribution ships patches to the kernel. The only person who can revoke Android being Linux is Linus Torvalds, not some random YouTuber named Gary.
Fact is, Microsoft ships Linux-based products and even if it's highly unlikely what they will switch the Xbox business to release Linux hardware, the outright statement "that’ll literally never happen" is ignorant.
True, I was just nit-picking rather than disagreeing with your original statement
The original statement wasn't by me. o_0
I know, I meant I wasn't disagreeing with your first comment about Microsoft using Linux!
They also said they were still committed to Zune and Windows Phone.
They probably weren't lying then or now, they are committed... for this quarter. When they read the numbers next quarter, well that's completely unrelated to today's commitments!
The writing is on the wall here, and it's plain to see. Also, you really can't trust anything that comes out of Phil Spencer's mouth.
If the goal is indeed for Xbox games to be on all platforms, then the Xbox platform is the only place they don't make money. Super low third-party sales, zero first-party sales. Only gamepass subscription money, which can't pay for all of their company buyouts, never mind paying off the 65 billion actiblizz purchase.
If gamepass is everywhere, then Xbox has no value to Microsoft, it only harms them.
It also exists to weaken any argument they might have to get governments to forcibly allow Microsoft stores on other platforms like the eu apple ruling.
It doesn't even matter if Gamepass or Xbox is currently profitable or not. It's about whether it can be more profitable. They originally thought the path to that was through exclusivity - now they don't (just as Sony changed course in regards to putting stuff on PC). Anyone who thinks that corporate decision-making is ever based on anything else is being naive.
The practical concern here for me is at what point does MS find it most profitable to stop supporting my ability to use my accumulated physical and digital xbox software. Another reason walled gardens suck.
Microsoft with gamepass (and other large game companies) are trying to do the gaming industry what Spotify did to the music industry. Blow the bottom out of it, get consumers used to subscriptions where money goes to massive companies not the artists actually doing the work, and let it all collapse into a heap so execs can do whatever they want because workers in the game industry have zero leverage left to dictate a higher quality of life since the path to profit has been carpet bombed by the finance industry (you don't want to work for Microsoft or Sony? Oh sorry yeah nobody else can make money in video games so tough luck finding a job somewhere else).
Why now? Well unlike the movie industry, video game nerds have a stunted awareness of the value of unions and worker organization so in plain daylight the rich can drive the entire industry off a cliff, fire a huge percentage of the workers and try to replace them with AI.... and worst comes to worst those companies will be in a great position to demand whatever they want from the remaining human labor after the dust settles even if the AI crap doesn't work.
Good old Disaster Capitalism.
Windows is everywhere but the Microsoft Surface products still have value to Microsoft. Or for that matter, Steam is everywhere but Valve still made the steam deck. There seems to be some value to software companies making hardware if only to help set the tone and introduce features or ideas they hope other companies who use their software will follow.
That said, I wonder if we won’t see the Xbox brand transition to software only with a line of gamer targeted Microsoft surfaces advertised as Xbox ready.
Those are the standards and those products have value. Buying an Xbox when Playstation has all games for both consoles makes no sense unless you just have to have Gamepass, specifically.
That's really not a Phil Spencer thing, and more of a "You can tell any executive is lying, because their lips are moving" thing.
When a nintendo executive I generally trust that theirs truth somewhere past the branding. With Phil Spencer talks I'm just assuming the opposite of everything he says. It's a different thing, he really goes for the lies, to you, to the ftc, everyone
Satoru Iwata said they don't do layoffs, he even took pay cuts to attempt to balance their budgets and keep people on...then he died in 2015. Now Nintendo's credibility is in the toilet with the rest. The mistake you're making is trusting a company with shareholders, you really need to learn how this works......executives of publicly traded companies=fucking liars.
It’s almost as if Microsoft is a software company at heart and just wants to sell as many copies of their software as possible.
It's never a good sign when you have to say something like that...
"Any man who must say 'I am the King' is no true king."
Didn't Aragorn have to tell those ghost dudes he was the king to get them to fulfill their oath? 🤔
Yeah, and it went something like "Hay, I am TEH KING" Ghost dudes be like "lolwut? Fuq, die bitch" Aragorn blocks attack with Anduril "Oh shit, lmao, sorry, we gotchu bruh"
THEN he was teh kang.
Okay, but are the users still committed to buying them?
I mean, is that a real problem for Microsoft today?
I think Xbox is in its stronger times, so much that I actually want one lol
Considering that estimates have PS5 outselling XSeries by 2:1 (also confirmed by semi-official data), and XSeries doing worse than its predecessor, I'd say: yes, it's a very real problem for them.
I hope they truly stick with the Xbox brand, it will be bad for all of us to only have Sony with the cake... (I mean we have Nintendo, but they have always been on their own).
The only reason they want their games on multiple platforms is so they can prove they're not trying to buy up studios for exclusivity. This is the main objective here folks. They don't care about being on more than one platform, they just don't want to fight the FTC again when they try to buy up sega, square enix, take2, embracer or whoever the fuck they want to buy next. Remember, this is the same arrogant bullshit company that wanted to buy Nintendo and got laughed out of the conference room.
I wish they would let you install windows on them, but then i guess id be buying games on steam not Microsoft store / gamepass
They should make Linux boxes.
Xbox is Microsoft so that'll literally never happen. They could make Windows 11 boxes though.
Microsoft already uses Linux and in fact even develops its own Linux distribution since quite some time because Windows just isn't good enough for certain tasks: https://github.com/microsoft/CBL-Mariner
Surface Duo is another Linux-based product by Microsoft.
Surface Duo uses Android though so I wouldn't put it in the same vein as Linux distros. Microsoft uses Linux for their web services like everyone else, but there is no way they're going to push people to using their competitor on consumer products. They want people to stay on Windows.
Android is Linux.
Windows Phone is dead, Android is not.
One of the reasons that Steam Deck is better than Windows handheld PCs is because Valve can freely modify the graphics drivers. That's not possible with the proprietary Windows Radeon drivers.
Yes and no
Only yes. GNU software is irrelevant for anything being Linux (lots of other Linux distributions use no GNU software at all, most notably embedded variants using musl and Busybox). The kernel being a modified one is also irrelevant because almost every distribution ships patches to the kernel. The only person who can revoke Android being Linux is Linus Torvalds, not some random YouTuber named Gary.
Fact is, Microsoft ships Linux-based products and even if it's highly unlikely what they will switch the Xbox business to release Linux hardware, the outright statement "that’ll literally never happen" is ignorant.
True, I was just nit-picking rather than disagreeing with your original statement
The original statement wasn't by me. o_0
I know, I meant I wasn't disagreeing with your first comment about Microsoft using Linux!