Microsoft EEE at its best: gobble up all game studios and then kill them.

Microsoft needs to be split, it should been split years ago, but now more than ever.

> at its best

This looks more like simple corporate incompetence. They never should have made those very expensive acquisitions.

	▲	thewebguyd an hour ago \| parent [-]
		They should never have been allowed to make those acquisitions. Especially after they misled the FTC about Activision/Blizzard remaining independent and easily spun off again, and then immediately fired 1900 people afterwards forcing them to integrate more tightly into Microsoft gaming.

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Goronmon 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Microsoft EEE at its best: gobble up all game studios and then kill them.

"Embrace, Extend, Extinguish" isn't applicable at all in this context though?

	▲	tomnipotent 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Of course not, but most folks poking at Microsoft are just borrowing their opinion from other people and regurgitating it for karma. I'm happy to crap on MS for bad decisions, but the constant "herp derp EEE" gets tired fast.

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satvikpendem 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

EEE requires them to have succeeded to extinguish, not just be incompetent as to close them down.

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LadyCailin 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I don’t think that applies here. They don’t have a monopoly on gaming, there are major competitors in the space, from Sony and Nintendo, as well as Steam/Indie devs. Buying some studios might be anticompetitive in some minor ways, for instance if you’re a huge elder scrolls or fallout fan, but there’s just too many games out there for that to possibly be a viable strategy at a macroscopic level.