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Creation layer of the stack: Unity or Unreal.
Visual Studio is still there, although losing market share
Even Google now ships VS plugins for Android game development and Stadia.
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People may be flooding into vertical integration, though the history of that isn’t great. (Look at AOL/TimeWarner or Verizon/AOL/Tumblr/Yahoo) All it takes is missing one generation and the house of cards gets written down. Someone can create the next generation blockbuster for a lot less than $69bln. To argue against myself, they’ve become a lot better at picking trends since Balmer left too.
Ballmer gets a bad rap but he was the one that got them moving towards Azure and cloud. He made MS a lot of money, they didn’t suffer under him. It was mostly just optics where he didn’t look good.
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Ballmer gets a bad rap but he was the one that got them moving towards Azure and cloud. He made MS a lot of money, they didn’t suffer under him. It was mostly just optics where he didn’t look good.
Look at the stock price under him, and then after.
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At least for Xbox, the biggest positive change in leadership has been the replacement of Don Mattrick with Phil Spencer in 2014. Xbox as a brand was in real bad shape when he took over.
Don Mattrick might as well have been a plant by Sony he was so effective at destroying all the good will Microsoft had built with gamers during the 360 era. Introducing Xbox One as a media center with no ownership through physical media was a disaster. Then again, Xbox branding is a total disaster anyway. The Xbox Series X vs the Xbox One X vs the Xbox 1 are all very different things but aren’t that far apart in name…
When they showed that off I knew nobody at Xbox had a single clue who their audience was.
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>> has been able to vertically integrate MS for a long time had such opportunities which it missed almost every single time. On the other hand, Apple had similar opportunities and succeeded almost every single time. The MS list: - Windows Mobile - Zune - MSN The Apple list: - iTunes - iMessage - iCloud - iOs (some more)
Microsoft is extremely successful with Azure. Apple did not compete at all on public cloud offering.
> Microsoft is extremely successful with Azure.
I do not see any disagreement here.
I'd love if they might breathe some life back into Starcraft 2, or even start working on 3. Normally I'd be worried when the company that owns my favorite game gets acquired, but it'd hardly be possible to do less with it than they already were.
Warcraft 4 please. They made Age of Empires 4 happen too
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Maybe it actually works
maybe you're talking about account issues, but I find that the battle.net launcher has been pretty great.
Also just in general, it'd be nice if the game itself worked as well as the in-game store which never has any issues.
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Ballmer gets a bad rap but he was the one that got them moving towards Azure and cloud. He made MS a lot of money, they didn’t suffer under him. It was mostly just optics where he didn’t look good.
Look at the stock price under him, and then after.
For me your comment rings the same as saying look at the stock price of AMD under and after Lisa Su.