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The Wall Street Journal 16 Jul 2026 6:19 20 here now

Why Microsoft's $80B Xbox Bet Backfired | WSJ What Went Wrong

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Microsoft’s Xbox bet on a subscription service called Game Pass after struggling to keep up in the console market. The company spent more than $80 billion to bring major franchises like “Call of Duty”

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They have put a SaaS / delivery service nincompoop in charge of gaming. She will drive this business into the ground. Nadella is a visionary and generational leader but he has made a horrible decision with Asha Sharma.
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yikes, video lacks a lot of historial context, poor video and reporting
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@djpuplex From YouTube ↗ 16 Jul 2026 1
You can only treat your customers like 💩 for so long.
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Bear in mind, this is before they use GenAI to build their games. Expect more slop, y'all.
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Point PlayStation.
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@Jack74u2 From YouTube ↗ 16 Jul 2026 6
Did someone at MS charge $ 30 bucks a month to play COD? Did that person also lease a Honda Civic for $ 15 thousand a year?
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lamepass only sealed xbox's fate as a failure, but the xbox one launch is the starting point of xbox's demise. I kinda feel sorry for the fools that still believe in microslop and Lbox
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People are just having enough of subscription models, everything is subscription now😢😢😢
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@auro1986 From YouTube ↗ 16 Jul 2026 2
why? they discontinued support of their windows millennium, their best operating system
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Good news for me, please make the deal come true.
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When I buy a game, I want the entire game… permanently…