“They’re going to kill Xbox!” Microsoft’s big boss stands firm and signs off that he will “continue to deliver video games on new platforms”

Gaming News “They’re going to kill Xbox!” Microsoft’s big boss stands firm and signs off that he will “continue to deliver video games on new platforms”

Continue the strategy

In his letter to his company’s shareholders, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella took stock of his company’s strategy. It is of course about AI and especially about Copilot, even if relations with OpenAI are increasingly tense. Nadella also discusses the successes of Azure, Github, Visual Studio and Microsoft 365, without forgetting Bing, Microsoft Edge, LinkedIn and Teams. He also has a little word about the Xbox that is rather reassuring. According to him, the company now has more than 20 franchises that have reached a billion dollars in sales. Now that the authorities have approved Activision Blizzard’s takeover, there’s no reason not to get bloated!

That’s not all, the CEO of the Redmond company also stated that Xbox “would continue to expand content to new platforms”. Some will say there’s nothing new from what Spencer has said in the past, which is true, but this confirmation shows that the big boss is completely open to the idea of ​​bringing Xbox games to other machines. Not just Bethesda and Activision titles, but also others, those from Microsoft’s first-party studios, like Grounded, Sea of ​​​​Thieves or even Pentiment. This new statement should trigger a new wave of rumors heralding the arrival of Forza, Halo or even Gears of War on PS5. Should we take bets?

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“He’s an idiot.”

The year 2024 ends with various problems related to Microsoft’s communication, or at least the way fans understand what Microsoft is announcing. What is certain is that fans of the brand did not expect this acceleration of the multiplatform strategy after the acquisitions of Bethesda and Activision, even if Satya Nadella and Tim Stuart (Microsoft CFO) mentioned the PS5 as the target platform several times. Recently, the confirmation of the arrival of Indiana Jones on the Sony computer as the highlight of the gamescom conference caused huge goosebumps in the community.X”. Some fans of the American brand vented their anger on social networks. “I can no longer trust the Xbox brand. They should have been at the forefront from the beginning and told the community what was going on” we read. After the publication of Nadella’s letter to shareholders, we read similar comments. “Satya Nadella is an idiot, he should retire from the Xbox division and Phil Spencer should be fired. Satya clearly doesn’t know what he’s doing, killing the Xbox and giving away games to a competitor who is actively trying to take games off the Xbox in return”we read over Here. What could calm things down are the few lines from Microsoft’s latest annual report in which we can read that exclusives are still a benchmark for assessing Xbox’s growth.