Med den nye generation af Sony og Microsofts konsoller på vej i år, er der igen blevet pustet ild i den gamle konsolkrig. Ifølge Phil Spencer, der er Vice President hos Microsoft og i spidsen for Xbox, er det ikke Sony og Nintendo, som han anser som Xboxs største konkurrenter.
I et interview med Protocol om cloud-teknologiens potentiale, fortalte Phil Spencer:
"When you talk about Nintendo and Sony, we have a ton of respect for them, but we see Amazon and Google as the main competitors going forward. That's not to disrespect Nintendo and Sony, but the traditional gaming companies are somewhat out of position. I guess they could try to re-create Azure, but we've invested tens of billions of dollars in cloud over the years."
Spencer håber ikke, at være fanget i "a fight over format wars with those guys while Amazon and Google are focusing on how to get gaming to 7 billion people around the world. Ultimately, that's the goal."
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