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Re: Reaction: Xbox's Commitment To Console Gaming Is Pleasing, But Big Questions Linger

Ken_Kaniff

@Dimey I feel you. I'm not really worried about it. Xbox is my second console anyways, lol. Im just chiming in my opinion on the matter, but what do I know.

With the ABK stuff I believe there was some miscalculations on MS part when people didn't come running after the deal closed. I read something somewhere that said at the rate of yearly income that Xbox brings in it would take 35 years for them to just recover the money from the ABK deal. Then if you listen to how Phil Spencer stated they are doing this because they "found out something" it kind of tells you it's a money thing. Because people don't seem to care that they purchased these publishers. They are staying on there preferred console.

But anyway it was nice having this discussion with you, and will see how this goes going forward.

Re: Reaction: Xbox's Commitment To Console Gaming Is Pleasing, But Big Questions Linger

Ken_Kaniff

@Dimey Well Ori, and Banjo were a partnership with Nintendo and Minecraft was already on everything when they bought Mojang. You might not see those flagpole titles you named come over, but everything else is fair game from how they are wording this to me.

This is different. I believe this boils down to the return on the huge investments they made in Bethesda and ABK. When the deal closed in October I dont think people came running over how they wanted. They even had a sale on consoles last fall and no one cared. I truly believe if the leaks didn't happen and MS could have made this announcement on there terms it would have been bigger games included with these four. They are just going to ease the Xbox community into this now.

Re: Microsoft CEO Says ActiBlizz Deal Helps Xbox Become 'A Good Publisher' On All Platforms

Ken_Kaniff

I do feel like MS is starting to come down on Xbox financially. I know MS has trillions, but at some point your gaming division has to start becoming profitable. Money from Game Pass is not going to cover funding for all these studios games, and you know there not making much off game sales because of GP. So I believe MS is probably putting some pressure on Xbox to start getting some of there titles out on other platforms to make more money off of pure game sales.