Microsoft is not leaving the console space. They are a dominant force in work and home offices. The Xbox acts like a Trojan horse and grants them access to the living room.

They have hinted that they view the future of consoles to be like cellphones. The come out with a new model every year, you buy one and, it has forward compatibility for a few years. With consoles becoming glorified X86 prebuilt PCs, they are right about to achieve their vision. And you think they will quit right at the finish line?

What people miss is that the CEO was going to spin off Xbox because Microsoft had to keep supporting it. Phill Spencer convinced him that they can reverse the direction of support and have Xbox prop up Microsoft.

So what does that mean for the future? It means that the Xbox console isn’t going to be the center of their world. The game pass/cloud gaming system will be. Xbox the system will stick around and be a leg of the stool. It acts like an easy on-ramp into their ecosystem.

Microsoft is not leaving the console space. They are a dominant force in work and home offices. The Xbox acts like a Trojan horse and grants them access to the living room.

They have hinted that they view the future of consoles to be like cellphones. The come out with a new model every year, you buy one and, it has forward compatibility for a few years. With consoles becoming glorified X86 prebuilt PCs, they are right about to achieve their vision. And you think they will quit right at the finish line?

What people miss is that the CEO was going to spin off Xbox because Microsoft had to keep supporting it. Phill Spencer convinced him that they can reverse the direction of support and have Xbox prop up Microsoft.