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7/13/2025, 10:02:29 PM
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He was just ahead of his time and applied the TV paradigm to the wrong device. Look how many people have smart TVs or dongles attached nowadays. MS saw this coming years ahead of time, they wanted the Xbox to be the device everyone streamed on, the "next TV". To some degree they succeeded, lots of people used the console for Netflix.
The problem is, a little fire stick is dirt cheap while an xbone costs hundreds. And most netflix users don't care about the other shit the xbone can do. So nobody bought it for that. Thus the Xbox got btfo as a streaming device by cheap dongles, btfo as a casual gaming device by phones, btfo as an enthusiast device by Playstation and later PC, and the rest is history.
They never recovered in part because the home console market in general is fading away. Playstation is fading as well for similar reasons, these consoles have no niche anymore and the biggest games are all on cheaper, more accessible platforms.
If Xbox released some sort of "Xbox Mini" tomorrow and it was under $100 and could stream AAA games over Gamepass, and it doubles as a smart tv dongle, it'd probably sell pretty well. The price could be subsidized by the gamepass subscription, they could even lock it down with a walled garden if they wanted.
He was just ahead of his time and applied the TV paradigm to the wrong device. Look how many people have smart TVs or dongles attached nowadays. MS saw this coming years ahead of time, they wanted the Xbox to be the device everyone streamed on, the "next TV". To some degree they succeeded, lots of people used the console for Netflix.
The problem is, a little fire stick is dirt cheap while an xbone costs hundreds. And most netflix users don't care about the other shit the xbone can do. So nobody bought it for that. Thus the Xbox got btfo as a streaming device by cheap dongles, btfo as a casual gaming device by phones, btfo as an enthusiast device by Playstation and later PC, and the rest is history.
They never recovered in part because the home console market in general is fading away. Playstation is fading as well for similar reasons, these consoles have no niche anymore and the biggest games are all on cheaper, more accessible platforms.
If Xbox released some sort of "Xbox Mini" tomorrow and it was under $100 and could stream AAA games over Gamepass, and it doubles as a smart tv dongle, it'd probably sell pretty well. The price could be subsidized by the gamepass subscription, they could even lock it down with a walled garden if they wanted.
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