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What is the point of Xbox? (www.eurogamer.net)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Microsoft and Google really aren't too dissimilar, in a lot of ways. The only reason why Xbox still exists isn't because they're so incredibly passionate about it. There was a niche for them to make money, and they've created a product in it, that has the minimum viable qualities to complete. Issue is that just as Google does, they stopped caring about it entirely, after the initial pitch