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With the next Xbox, Microsoft is done competing with PlayStation: 'We see Amazon and Google as the main competitors going forward'
This holiday season, both Sony and Microsoft plan to launch new, so-called next-generation versions of the PlayStation and the Xbox game consoles.
Goodbye, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One! Hello, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X!
It marks the fourth game console "generation" in which Microsoft and Sony have gone head-to-head, starting with the PlayStation 2 and the original Xbox around the turn of the century. Nintendo moved away from competing directly with Sony and Microsoft's consoles years ago, choosing instead to create consoles geared to a different audience with the launch of the wildly successful Nintendo Wii in 2006.
These days, the "console wars" are a head-to-head between Sony's PlayStation and Microsoft's Xbox. But in 2020, Microsoft is shifting its business strategy in a way that could end them for good.
"When you talk about Nintendo and Sony, we have a ton of respect for them," Xbox leader Phil Spencer told Protocol in an interview published this week. "But we see Amazon and Google as the main competitors going forward."
Neither Google nor Amazon has publicly announced plans to launch a game console, but both are positioned to compete directly with Microsoft's Xbox when it comes to what Spencer sees as the next great expansion in gaming.
"Amazon and Google are focusing on how to get gaming to 7 billion people around the world," Spencer told Protocol. "Ultimately, that's the goal."
Though game consoles like Xbox One and PlayStation 4 sell in the tens or, in the case of PS4, hundreds of millions, the real potential market for gaming, Spencer believes, is in the billions of people on Earth who don't — or can't — own a game console.
"There are 2 billion people who play video games on the planet today. We're not gonna sell 2 billion consoles," Spencer told me in an interview in June 2018. "Many of those people don't own a television, many have never owned a PC. For many people on the planet, the phone is their compute device. It's really about reaching a customer wherever they are, on the devices that they have."
Do you want to play games on an Xbox? A PC? Your phone? Microsoft wants to reach you there — ideally across all three.
It's a similar approach to the Netflixes and Spotifys of the world — reach people on whatever device they have, wherever they are, with the media they want to consume.
To that end, Xbox has major initiatives across all three platforms: a new game console (Xbox Series X), a cloud gaming service (Project xCloud), and a Netflix-like gaming service (Game Pass).
"That remains core to what we're trying to do," Spencer told me in a more recent interview this past June. "To allow creators to reach the customers that they want, allow players to play the games that they want with the people they want to play with, anywhere they want. And it fits right into the opportunity ahead."
It's part of a broader effort at Microsoft to bring Xbox games to as many people as possible — even if those people don't buy a new Xbox console.
And it could mean the end of the console wars as we know them.
Source : BusinessInsiders
You guys seeing this?
Phil Spencer gona end the console wars
Do you see how beautiful is that ?
Xbox...Ps and Nintendo are friends now....
No more hostility...
The outcome of this statement ?
Xbox will release Bethesda game on Playstation..Nintendo...or any other system...
Maybe not on Google...or Amazon....because Phil Spencer sees them as the real enemy...
I mean...us xbox gamers should embrace this...
We support each other..
I ve been telling you....
CatLady....Catlady..Catlady....
Lady Berkanstel..Lady Bernkastel...Lady Bernkastel...
Gavon West....Gavon West...Gavin West....
Do the right thing...
Do the right thing....
Lets gather in circle...shake hands together...share the game...
Bethesda game on PS..
Bethesda game on Nintendo...
Bethesda game in PC...
Bethesda game everywhere...
Let us fight Amazon and Google together...
Xbox won....how awesome is that ?
This holiday season, both Sony and Microsoft plan to launch new, so-called next-generation versions of the PlayStation and the Xbox game consoles.
Goodbye, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One! Hello, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X!
It marks the fourth game console "generation" in which Microsoft and Sony have gone head-to-head, starting with the PlayStation 2 and the original Xbox around the turn of the century. Nintendo moved away from competing directly with Sony and Microsoft's consoles years ago, choosing instead to create consoles geared to a different audience with the launch of the wildly successful Nintendo Wii in 2006.
These days, the "console wars" are a head-to-head between Sony's PlayStation and Microsoft's Xbox. But in 2020, Microsoft is shifting its business strategy in a way that could end them for good.
"When you talk about Nintendo and Sony, we have a ton of respect for them," Xbox leader Phil Spencer told Protocol in an interview published this week. "But we see Amazon and Google as the main competitors going forward."
Neither Google nor Amazon has publicly announced plans to launch a game console, but both are positioned to compete directly with Microsoft's Xbox when it comes to what Spencer sees as the next great expansion in gaming.
"Amazon and Google are focusing on how to get gaming to 7 billion people around the world," Spencer told Protocol. "Ultimately, that's the goal."
Though game consoles like Xbox One and PlayStation 4 sell in the tens or, in the case of PS4, hundreds of millions, the real potential market for gaming, Spencer believes, is in the billions of people on Earth who don't — or can't — own a game console.
"There are 2 billion people who play video games on the planet today. We're not gonna sell 2 billion consoles," Spencer told me in an interview in June 2018. "Many of those people don't own a television, many have never owned a PC. For many people on the planet, the phone is their compute device. It's really about reaching a customer wherever they are, on the devices that they have."
Do you want to play games on an Xbox? A PC? Your phone? Microsoft wants to reach you there — ideally across all three.
It's a similar approach to the Netflixes and Spotifys of the world — reach people on whatever device they have, wherever they are, with the media they want to consume.
To that end, Xbox has major initiatives across all three platforms: a new game console (Xbox Series X), a cloud gaming service (Project xCloud), and a Netflix-like gaming service (Game Pass).
"That remains core to what we're trying to do," Spencer told me in a more recent interview this past June. "To allow creators to reach the customers that they want, allow players to play the games that they want with the people they want to play with, anywhere they want. And it fits right into the opportunity ahead."
It's part of a broader effort at Microsoft to bring Xbox games to as many people as possible — even if those people don't buy a new Xbox console.
And it could mean the end of the console wars as we know them.
Source : BusinessInsiders
With the next Xbox, Microsoft is done competing with PlayStation: 'We see Amazon and Google as the main competitors going forward'
Microsoft's Xbox group is done competing with PlayStation, and sees Amazon and Google as "the main competitors going forward."
www.businessinsider.com
You guys seeing this?
Phil Spencer gona end the console wars
Do you see how beautiful is that ?
Xbox...Ps and Nintendo are friends now....
No more hostility...
The outcome of this statement ?
Xbox will release Bethesda game on Playstation..Nintendo...or any other system...
Maybe not on Google...or Amazon....because Phil Spencer sees them as the real enemy...
I mean...us xbox gamers should embrace this...
We support each other..
I ve been telling you....
CatLady....Catlady..Catlady....
Lady Berkanstel..Lady Bernkastel...Lady Bernkastel...
Gavon West....Gavon West...Gavin West....
Do the right thing...
Do the right thing....
Lets gather in circle...shake hands together...share the game...
Bethesda game on PS..
Bethesda game on Nintendo...
Bethesda game in PC...
Bethesda game everywhere...
Let us fight Amazon and Google together...
Xbox won....how awesome is that ?
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