John Gruber

is Game Pass, and that's why they continue to fight for we wanna be able to do this mobile store.

It's why they continue to get involved in these lawsuits.

And they said something about, in the memo it says, we will reevaluate our approach to exclusivity, windowing, and AI, and share more as we learn and decide.

Exclusivity, windowing, and AI is like a wild trio of things to name.

It's just stuff gamers hate.

Yeah.

What is true is I think Xbox is beyond the idea that the Xbox is a console that you have in your living room.

I think Microsoft has been past that for a while, maybe to its detriment, because fundamentally for most people, your game system is the thing in your living room that you play games on.

but they're, they're making this big bet.

And I think they're just trying to make it more clearly.

Yeah.

Because also like just the fact that you can play some Xbox games on a PC and you can play some PC games on a PC, but it is like more or less unknowable what you can actually play where it's just like, they've just lost the plot on this.

And to me, it's like, okay, we need to center on our thing is Xbox, not fucking PlayStation.

I mean, it's tricky because that's the kind of number you can mess with any way you want.

Like, is somebody playing Indiana Jones on the PlayStation 5 a daily active player for Microsoft?

They might be able to argue that it is.

But I think what that means is that you need to give people a sort of infinite availability of stuff to do, right?

Like, if daily active players is your goal, you sure as hell need a successful mobile strategy, right?

Maybe.

I mean, in the Amicus brief, you know what comes up a bunch is Zynga, the company.