[gdulli]

Why would they kill off a complementary product? Nintendo could be the kids/mobile brand and Xbox would be the adult living room brand. Microsoft could profit from both. It's Playstation that would become redundant in an acquisition.

[meepmorp]

> Why would they kill off a complementary product?

Incompetence, plus some longstanding organizational problems:

https://theartofdoing.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/ManuCor...

[endisneigh]

Yeah Microsoft is so incompetent they’ve managed to get only a near 3T market cap.

[meepmorp]

Oh shit, you're right, they've never done anything incompetent before!

[endisneigh]

Ya, I totally said they’ve never done anything incompetent lmao.

[dvngnt_]

Halo was a much better game series when Microsoft was worth a lot less.

Increased stock valuation doesn't mean better games.