| ▲ | websap an hour ago | |||||||
They lose money on every dollar they invest overall in xbox as a business. They pretty publicly documented this (which is unusual for Microsoft). Overall gaming is a dying business. Everyone has a pretty powerful smartphone in their pockets, and there are so many platform vying for attention. AAA gaming is becoming a smaller fraction of the overall gaming pie, so I would expect prices to go up. Mobile gaming usage is up from 42% -> 55% from 2017. Even based on analysis from Steam's data, Indie games are 48% of sales, vs 24% in 2018. | ||||||||
| ▲ | reisse 35 minutes ago | parent [-] | |||||||
> Overall gaming is a dying business. What? Both PC and mobile markets are growing by any reasonable metric, and consoles are propelled by stellar Switch 2 sales. The gaming market is ripe with money, it is total failure on Microsoft side that they failed to capture any of that. Xbox is on life support, and Windows platform tax is captured by Steam, where Valve funnels it into Linux to make its own platform. | ||||||||
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