Som det ser ud lige nu kommer Microsoft til at udgive en ny Xbox-konsol, men eftersom de nu udgiver deres spil på konkurrerende platforme, og markedsfører alle de ting du allerede ejer som en slags stand-in for en Xbox, så er det ikke mærkelig at konsolsalget er i frit fald.
Så hvordan ser fremtiden ud? Spørger du tidligere Xbox-chef Peter Moore, så direkte ønsker Microsoft en fremtid hvor de slet ikke behøver at producere en konsol. I et interview med Danny Pena siger han dette:
"What's happened with the acquisitions made by Microsoft... I still say, look, if they had the choice, would they make hardware? No. They would be delighted if they could be a multi-hundred billion-dollar entity delivering content directly to the television, to whatever monitor you choose to play on in the classically Netflix model, if you will. You just select who's playing this? 5,000 people playing this? I'm going to jump in right now, no latency, no lag, you're in. There doesn't need to be a box between you and your controller and the TV set. The acquisition of Activision Blizzard changed things, I think - not I think, I know - at Microsoft and so this is not the old days of the console wars and punching each other and trying to steal customers, get market share, and build your attach rate. This is bigger than that in an economic sense. Has it lost a little bit of the feistiness that the industry I think fed upon and grew upon? I think so, yeah."
Naturligvis kan xCloud streaming ikke endnu dyste mod lokal hardware, men mon ikke det er det vi er på vej imod?
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