John Gruber

They want to be able to play their games in all of the places, all of the.

Yes, of course.

That is the correct assumption.

outcome of how Microsoft's gaming ambitions should go.

And so I think this sense of like, we need to simplify what we offer and to whom and in what way is right.

Um, again, that is not a vastly different idea than what Phil Spencer has been talking about for a long time.

It just has fewer names and that's something like it's either genuinely you deserve credit inside of a big organization for going for fewer names.

That's a victory.

But I think it's true that you look at all of this.

And one of the things she has clearly identified is gamers don't understand what their Xbox is for and what is an Xbox, right?

Like the whole everything's an Xbox thing.

I think has backfired so spectacularly.

It is like inside of everything that Asha Sharma is now doing.

Well, and they got so over their skis buying games that I think it reshaped everything that they were trying to do, right?

And then it becomes an, okay, we have to start putting Xbox games on PlayStation because we have to figure out how to make money from these games.

And so it's like, okay, if what you actually want to do is bet on Xbox...

you stop doing things like that, right?

And you start to say, okay, we are going to build an ecosystem.

And I think they continue to believe they can build that system, not around a console, but around Game Pass.

Like I think ultimately my galaxy brain theory here would be that the center of Xbox