This is what you never understood...
The XBox console was only ever a tool used to generate money. Now that Microsoft is one of the biggest (THE biggest?) publishers in the world, they no longer need the piece of plastic to extract money.
Satya Nadella doesn't care about the plastic box. Satya Nadella only cares about extracting money. That's why Shawn Layden is out and Phil Spencer is in. Shawn still lives in the romantic period of gaming in his head. He doesn't understand the times of today.
So you're saying Phil Spencer was put in to deliberately kill Xbox as a platform, and MS buying Zenimax & ABK was planned from 2001? And not the result of many factors well outside of Microsoft's control converging into instances of sheer luck that they just happened to have the money to pursue due to things they planned for decades ago like failing with Zune and failing with Windows Phone? Were those two products also planned failures just to somehow miraculously allow them to buy ABK years later?
This logic you're using, makes absolutely zero sense. Spencer is the one stuck in the past; Nadella doesn't even
understand the gaming market at all. That's not his industry. You're using pure happenstance on MS's part buying two large 3P publishers during a very turbulent period they could not control, as them having some part of a master plan.
Yes, a "master plan" where they almost offed their entire gaming platform brand before the companies they ended up buying even put offers out onto the market to buy. Unless you're suggesting MS, Zenimax & ABK board members colluded BTS to sabotage those two publishers so MS could buy them later on. But at that point, you'd be admitting that MS committed several federal-level crimes and should likely be sued out of existence, & their business licenses revoked globally.
You didn't think this through, padre.
