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Microsoft Plans Major Job Cuts at Xbox Gaming Division (archive.is)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

This is a couple days delayed response, apologies for that I've been pretty busy.

With the rise of game streaming services like Xbox Cloud Gaming and Amazon Luna I predict that the console market is basically over. I honestly don't expect Microsoft to release another console and if Sony does it's almost certain to be the last. Nintendo may stick with it longer since they just released the Switch2 but they seem to be prepping for it with the digital key thing.

It sucks for the players but it makes fiscal sense for the Publishers and Console Makers (Microsoft, Sony, Nintendo) if there is an industry wide pivot to game streaming where players are required to pay every month. I know that some games don't lend themselves well to this, yet, but it's blatantly obvious (at least to me) that this is where the industry is headed.

We've already reached the end of "Console Exclusive" games and I think what comes next is "Streaming Platform Exclusive" games. I think what comes after that is the Publishers establishing their own Streaming Platforms for their own games.

This is precisely what has happened with the rest of the entertainment industry and there's no reason I can see for gaming, which is a subset of that same industry, to do anything else now that the streaming technology exists.

Steam and GOG will end up pushed out of the market or they will also become Streaming Platforms, just ones that cater to a different set of players.