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Xbox Has Had More Studio Closures Than First Party Game Releases So Far In 2024 (twistedvoxel.com)

submitted 6 months ago by Hypx@fedia.io to c/games@lemmy.world

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We've almost reached the end of the 1st half of 2024, and Xbox has had more studio closures than first party game releases in the year so far.

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[-] HuddaBudda@kbin.social 13 points 6 months ago

Did they just want to buy the IPs? Why throw Billions at video game development, only to cut out the development part?

[-] jodanlime@midwest.social 26 points 6 months ago

Microsoft has always been more than happy to make the market smaller by buying the competition and discontinuing their products shortly after. For some reason people didn't think Xbox would do the same?

[-] qooqie@lemmy.world 8 points 6 months ago

I’m not entirely sure but wasn’t this Bill Gates’s business strategy back in the 90s or so?

[-] Zehzin@lemmy.world 17 points 6 months ago

Embrace, Extend, Extinguish

[-] jodanlime@midwest.social 4 points 6 months ago

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish in 1998, Bill Gates stated: "One thing we have got to change in our strategy – allowing Office documents to be rendered very well by other people's browsers is one of the most destructive things we could do to the company. We have to stop putting any effort into this and make sure that Office documents very well depends on PROPRIETARY IE capabilities. Anything else is suicide for our platform. This is a case where Office has to avoid doing something to destory [sic] Windows."

Not just Gates, but all higher ups at Microsoft think this way. It's kind of naive to think Xbox would be different IMHO.