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RUMOR: 'The Future of Xbox is Software Publishing' as Next Console Generation Faces Doubts
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this post was submitted on 05 Oct 2025
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I don't think Microsoft makes great decisions. They're not as bad as Google, but it doesn't seem like they deliver what users want.
They'll probably spend billions on AI when users would rather just have a cheaper longer lasting device. But they gotta make maximum money, I guess.
Remember how much money they wasted on Kinect?
That peripheral was ahead of its time. Release it via Nintendo today with some Fortnite skins and a stupid name and it would sell like hotcakes.
The tech was great, but they alienated everyone by making it compulsory at the start and trying to shoe horn its adoption.
Agree that Nintendo could get away with it.
They should have marketed it as a peripheral and not a gaming controller. That (gaming) should have been a bonus for people to discover.
The failure of this device was in the marketing. The Internet decided it wasn’t “cool” and they couldn’t recover. That device is still used by multiple industries to this day.
I think the online backlash against this device was my realization that I despise the unnecessarily negative internet.