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Originally Posted by OutOfTheCube
I don't imagine Microsoft is going to release any more gaming hardware. They've lost so thoroughly to Sony that they need to bring first party games to that platform now to be profitable, and competing with Nintendo in the handheld space has been a losing prospect for 30 years. Even if they're looking at the 'premium' handheld space, there's already entrenched competitors that people wouldn't be eager to move on from today, let alone 'X' # of years in the future when they'd finally get something to market. Everything they've done in 2024 has so far indicated they're (slowly) transitioning to being a third party publisher, a space where they could be the biggest and make a ton of money.
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That doesn't strike me as particularly likely. They've claimed they have more console users at present than ever in their history, and console remains a fairly crucial conduit into Microsoft's all-important subscription universe. I do think that the Series S was a mistake on balance, but people get way too myopically focused on the fact that Sony's sold more hardware than Microsoft. When you zoom out and look at the two businesses, MS is a giant in the industry now and will I'm sure be happy to continue providing their own hardware as a means to access their software and services, at least for the foreseeable future.