Seems like (yet another) bad take to me, they can do both quite happily.
It absolutely makes sense to be promoting Game Pass outside of the console eco system though as this is an area of greater potential growth of Game Pass numbers and is part of the greater future vision that I have mentioned many many times of moving entirely to a streaming only ecosystem (and why MS will absolutely not be dropping Game Pass).
That isn't going to happen by the next console cycle though and Microsoft are already committed to releasing another system in 2027, so I very much doubt they're going to abandon marketting the consoles and thus abandoning its current core audience of console gamers (as if 28 million consoles sold is poor). That makes no sense at all.
Next rumour to sprout from this I wager will be: Microsoft to stop selling consoles in the EU.
It absolutely makes sense to be promoting Game Pass outside of the console eco system though as this is an area of greater potential growth of Game Pass numbers and is part of the greater future vision that I have mentioned many many times of moving entirely to a streaming only ecosystem (and why MS will absolutely not be dropping Game Pass).
That isn't going to happen by the next console cycle though and Microsoft are already committed to releasing another system in 2027, so I very much doubt they're going to abandon marketting the consoles and thus abandoning its current core audience of console gamers (as if 28 million consoles sold is poor). That makes no sense at all.
Next rumour to sprout from this I wager will be: Microsoft to stop selling consoles in the EU.
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