Through King?
You don't trick people into being whales, just like casinos don't kidnap people to spend money, they just put out mobile games with heavy MTX and the whales will come to spend their money.I mean I played lots of mobile games and haven't ever spend a cent on them but my brother played the same games and spent more than a few hundred bucks and he is far from being a whale.
You know him. Why he do it?
MS has tons of resources to get Phil the help he needed to turn the ship around a long time ago but the truth that people are finally realizing is this has all been a part of the plan.
It wasn't even a discussion, it boiled down to a note on what would be required to achieve success in the mobile space. At no point does it even appear to be a serious suggestion. Heck, the conversation almost immediately turned to something else.
Of course people love those mails and we know why. To me those are just some thougts and in a big company you have to discuss and think about anything. They also have questionable patents, they most likely will never use, but it would have been irresponsible not to deal with it.
This shows that they could just pull the plug on everything if things go south, and that’s not something you want your customer to even speculate about when you want them to invest longterm in your platform. It’s bad. Losing the ABK deal will show their longterm plans, if they have any, they can get more focused and energized or they can lose the energy and just give up. We’ll know soon enough.
likely more profitable tho
I think MS wanted Phil to act exactly like Bobby. A follow up email said "not the condoning a culture of sexual assaults part obviously"
“Close all the Xbox stuff”
IF they wanted to win organically in gaming. Which isn't what they are doing, since they are buying companies. That's not organic growth...
And if they’re losing the ABK deal? which they likely will
So you are saying that idea of closing Xbox to start a mobile gaming division was not brought up?
It would be a secondary platform. They don’t have the studios needed to succeed on two fronts.
It was a thought experiment™… or act of frustration, or something. To me the whole thing feels off. But it’s clear from the industry in general that doing well on multiple platforms isn’t easy. There is always a game drought going on. Nintendo is the only one who has been quite successful, with console and portables, but even them synchronized their output eventually.
True but we don’t want companies to hastly jump ship when things don’t go their way. Imagine if Sony would just end their VR plans at this point if PSVR2 don’t become a smashing success. It makes you not want to invest.
I'm saying that this never was an actual real option
It wasn't. The email clearly reads that in order to organically win in mobile they would need to close Xbox and spend all that money on starting a mobile company. At no point was closing Xbox seriously suggested or even further discussed.
Agreed Xbox is perfectly fine with destroying the gaming ecosystem, they would gladly piss away gaming squeezing the life at it for an easy buck then throw it away when they it had finally become no longer worth it, thankfully even if they did Nintendo is so stubborn they wouldn't follow suit (at least not until all the old guard died).
Please elaborate? One person being incompetent at their job doesn't make their competitor a "genius."
And is bad for the gaming market..or not?
It is bad for gaming if Xbox dies due to a lack of competition against sony so they will keep trying but there's not much to be done at this point about it unfortunately. We lose no matter what, this is all Microsofts fault for dropping the ball and pushing shady shit.
I had both a Z2 and a Z3c, both of which were (almost) great phones. Nearly vanilla Android, and the "enhancements" were mostly harmless, sometimes pretty good even. Quite good battery life and components all around. Great water proofing - the latter survived a geyser in Iceland (not intentionally, but you can't estimate where it's going to land, and the water is really quite hot).
You better buckle up then as the FTC trial resumes later today!I cant keep up with all these leak emails.
It was at the end of Xbox One X, which was awesome, and pre-Xbox Series launch, which they had lots of confidence about with the 12TF and all. To even have a thought experiment about closing Xbox at that point is some strange Google graveyard thinking.
