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The console wars are over!...according to Microsoft

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Interesting article in Forbes

When you talk about Nintendo and Sony, we have a ton of respect for them, but we see Amazon and Google as the main competitors going forward. That's not to disrespect Nintendo and Sony, but the traditional gaming companies are somewhat out of position. I guess they could try to re-create Azure, but we've invested tens of billions of dollars in cloud over the years.
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I don't want to be in a fight over format wars with those guys while Amazon and Google are focusing on how to get gaming to 7 billion people around the world. Ultimately, that's the goal.
Phil Spencer, interview with Protocol
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www.forbes.com

There Is No Console War Because Xbox Moved On And Left PlayStation Behind

The video game industry has moved beyond who sells the most consoles.
www.forbes.com www.forbes.com
 
Yup, more and easier money to be made on gaming datacenters that's for sure.

Nvidia saw it coming years ago and tried to position themselves as best they could, and started pricing their GPUs high to incentivise people to move over to their streaming service. Will see if they can take on Google, Microsoft, and to some extent Apple's different approches.
 
The people making the statements in that article are delusional and daft as a mouse. Microsoft knows they're not winning the console war so they're trying to move the goal-posts using influence and the media. The public is not stupid. They'll see right through it.

Game Streaming is not the future. There are too many unresolvable problems to make it sustainable. Playing online is difficult enough without adding in yet another variable in the equation that will cause connection stability problems and lag.
 
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No different then the nVidia killer product from AMD. I see Streaming affecting console sales being affected more than anything else. But at this poit in time, anyway... I dont see them taking that big a hit.

As to the pricing .... the 2080 equivalent has been averaging around $700 (in 2017 dollars) since the year 2000 with few exceptions (mining craze / early 2xxx series procing designed to sell out 1xxx inventories) . HotHardware had a graph ... in a 2017 article but seems to have vanished.
 
I would take what Phil Spencer has to say with a grain of salt.
 
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