I think this past week has shown, despite being third place in terms of console sales, Microsoft is by far the most influential force in gaming and its almost frightening

[dinkeytom]

Microsoft were always an influential force in gaming. They just became more influential with the og Xbox.

[cinste (Pete)]

@Sparda3g

Microsoft wasn’t all in like a serious investment, rather how Google sees it with Stadia in some sense. Therefore, Sony didn’t have to fear them that badly and thus, the competition was like stalemate. Xbox One launch failure and the shake-up within Microsoft could have ended Xbox the way we all know today. Phil Spencer was the right man to step in and convinced Satya, who was new at the time, to give it all for Xbox. Once he was promoted around end of 2017 after proving Xbox is essential, the rest is history.

You only have to go back in time to the Xbox 1 launch era to get a potted history of this, bad actors on many forums raising dog whistles against an increasingly invested MS in the gaming arena. We started with the Xbox one where there will be no opening of the MS war chest for Xbox, they are going to sell the division, through the X1X is a failure to MS will quit console manufacture after series consoles, on to ZeniMax acquisition will result in massive job losses and therefore is bad followed by a brief period of ZeniMax is the biggest Xbox will be allowed to go as EA (for example) is just too much money for MS to invest in the division to the latest anti-trust regulators will stop the third place player in a market investing to compete better with higher placed competitors.

MS is not going to stop any time soon as evidenced by the levels of investment. And given their current behaviours in the space that’s a good thing.

[Ruthwik_Rao]

@Vivir

Jorja Smith

ohhhh shit yeaaah I was wondering where I’d seen her before.

Good taste in music I see.