• RickRussell_CA@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Vertical integration. Windows underpins Office, and even cloud services.

    Xbox though, they’ve already pretty much written its epitaph.

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      Xbox is actively being dropped from Target and Walmart, but it doesn’t help that the push is for digital games with no physical presence in stores.

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      Xbox should’ve been the prestige product for Microsoft (just like Logic/Final Cut for Apple) but Xbox itself depleted any prestige it ever accumulated over the last few years.