John Gruber

At the very least, it doesn't sound like Microsoft is done fighting this particular battle.

Can it win the fight to sell Xbox games its own way on mobile phones?

Who knows?

But it's still betting on that in a way that I'm frankly slightly surprised by.

Wait, the one other bit of Microsoft news that I want to know your thoughts on.

They also dropped the price of Game Pass Ultimate this week from $30 a month to $23 a month.

The one big caveat being Call of Duty games will no longer show up on Game Pass kind of day and date when they launch.

What do you make of that?

Call of Duty is like the thing.

That's what they bought Activision Blizzard for.

Yeah, that's very fair.

There's also just a line in here that says, maintaining grow in live games and long-term stewardship, elevate creator-centric platforms like Minecraft, Elder Scrolls, and Sea of Thieves.

Boy, is Microsoft not ever going to give up on building another Fortnite.

Like, over and over, everybody keeps trying to build live services games to take down the few that make all of the money and have all of the users.

Everybody fails, and they just can't help themselves.

Yeah.

And, like, Minecraft is huge and very successful and a place that people do lots of things inside of.

So, like, there's a lot to plumb there.

But this is...

Microsoft is still trying to kind of be everything all at the same time.