A reader examines the recent sales results for Xbox and predicts that Microsoft will now refocus on PC gaming and trying to take on Valve.
What’s next for Xbox? As The Beatles have always maintained, money can’t buy you love. I don’t imagine they were thinking of trillion dollar corporations when they wrote those lyrics but the concept applies to a lot of things. Microsoft has spent over $75 billion on buying developers over the last few years, and I’m sure many times that overall on Xbox, but it’s done essentially nothing to improve their position in the games industry.
Not given that the longer things go on the more people get sucked into the PlayStation ecosystem – Phil Spencer has even spoken about this himself. What I expect to see them do in the future is go all in on PC and probably try to create some kind of rival to Steam or buy Valve. I looked up how much Valve are worth and to my surprise it’s only $7.7 billion, which is almost exactly the same as Bethesda and far less than Activision Blizzard.
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