Thread by @GameLogIQ

Going back and listening to the Xbox Business Update, there are a few things people are not listening to.

1. "When everybody plays, we all win" - this is the current bumper sticker being bandied about as the "winning" campaign slogan that proves that PlayStation & Nintendo also

publishing fewer exclusives & going multiplat is inevitable. But where did that Madison Ave soundbite start? It was actually a claxon call for the gaming industry to address accessibility. This is an ESG venture. One of the things corporations point to as proof of their good

intentions. It's one I believed in. Spencer now refers to it as a "business strategy". (time 5:53 - 6:08)

2. I've said dedicated software for dedicated hardware makes a better experience 9 times out of 10. Here's what Sarah Bond had to say:

3. The math. Everyone touts that this is Xbox getting ahead of everyone else, b/c they say the number of console players is finite, that they are doing this b/c "the industry" isn't growing, & therefore everyone else will have to also. But if you're taking your console games and

publishing them to other consoles, how is that "winning"? Just making those games available on other consoles doesn't make Nintendo sell more Switch's or PlayStation sell more PS5's. Other than the ones people might b/c they no longer see a need to own an Xbox if they're

publishing some of their exclusives catalog to those other consoles. And so the addressable market remains the same, if this fan theory being touted as a credible hypothesis is to be believed?

Booty speaks to this but it's really just a matter of this being good for XBox. Things

it HAS to do in order to compete & stay relevant, given its dwindling comparative market share. Disguised under the same type of snow job as Apple claiming they're the security and privacy choice for smartphone buyers. A political obfuscation that Xbox Sympathizers &

access-beggars are trumpeting. It's a thing you have to do when you have < 10% market share. It's not something you're compelled to do when you have 45% market share and face no competition. Exclusives matter and yield better products, as Sarah Bond corroborated. Publishing

exclusives to Xbox DOESN't help Nintendo and PlayStation. Day-and-date on PC DOESN'T help PlayStation except for GAAS games. Multiplatform, which dilutes the brand value, is not something every platform owner has a business incentive to do. Xbox is selling wolf-tickets and this

is a delaying tactic to get Amy Hood off the GLTs back. Their play is the Cloud market that they and their fanatics tried to tell you wasn't a market at all and one where there was no way Microsoft / Xbox could exert market dominance by getting there first. They literally say

this every time they open their mouths now. This multiplat dogma is meant to sow a ploughshares movement, rile up the disenfranchised, cover their tracks, trickle an added revenue stream to quiet Hood & Stuart, while they continue racing to get the Cohesive Hybrid Compute Gaming

platform in place. By the start of gen10. Before Spencer is out of time.

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