Глава Microsoft Сатья Наделла прокомментировал будущее Xbox.
По его словам, игровому направлению спустя 25 лет инвестиций пора зарабатывать деньги и стать значимым направлением Microsoft, а не субсидированным отделом на галёрке.
Оригинал
Asha is really 100 days in, and she put out a post saying, in the next 100 days, she's going to take a fresh look and make sure we deliver on what our fans expect of us both on the hardware side and on the publishing side. The challenge now for us is to think about how do you innovate both in hardware as well as in the games going forward in a world in an economically viable way.We've invested a lot. No one can accuse Microsoft of not having invested for the last 25 years. And now we have to turn this into a sustainable business that delivers what is fundamentally one of the best sources of entertainment. The challenge we have is that we've not been monetizing that entertainment. If anything, we've been subsidizing that entertainment. In fact, there's more monetization of Xbox games happening on YouTube than at Microsoft.
Эх, а когда то мне говорили что они спокойно могут 30 лет инвестировать...