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by mariusmg 927 days ago
Old and pointless article. Since then they "won" the FTC case and purchase Activision Blizzard.

Nobody spends 70 billions only to "exit" the gaming business couple of months later.

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Nobody spends 44 billion to ruin companies, either.
MS made a choice, Elon made a mistake.
Elon is an idividual, who happens to posess large operations, and runs them like personal toys that just happen to be big. MS is not and does not.

Individuals absolutely do stupid things for stupid reasons, at whatever scale they have access to.

I guess your point still stands though, since the Muskverse is not the only one like that where there is an individual owner at the top who is willing to treat the whole thing like personal disposable property.

months?

> Xbox would leave the gaming business if Game Pass' subscriber base did not significantly increase on PC and cloud by 2027

First sentence of this long and pointless article.