What an Xbox founder thinks of the new Xbox CEO | Seamus Blackley interview
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Seamus Blackley was one of the renegades who got the Xbox started. We asked him what he thinks of the big executive changes at Xbox.
  • NoWay@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 months ago

    Microsoft is quietly sunsetting everything they cant make money on with AI.

    • mephiska@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      4 months ago

      They can’t even make money with their AI, they only survive off the windows OEM licenses, Office 365 subs that businesses are locked into and their backend server and sql stuff. That’s enough to make them a walking dead for a long time.

  • yermaw@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    4 months ago

    Its got to be deliberate. They’ve had so many chances and fucked it, and they’ve had so many successes that they’ve just cancelled or discontinued for seemingly no reason.

  • Rose@slrpnk.netEnglish
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    4 months ago

    My feeling on Xbox since Xbox One days has been pretty much “this is an awesome platform, you’re sitting on a gold mine Microsoft, what the fuck are you doing?”

    The last bit of brilliance they did utilise properly was GamePass, and of course they cocked that up by getting greedy.

    Last few years have been extremely rough. The only lucky thing about this is that instead of full Xbox exclusivity Microsoft was pushing Xbox/Windows cross functionality. …Yeah, I’ve been pivoting to PC, but Steam/GOG instead.