But you're not paying for it. I would have to put you on Voost level if you are paying $9.99-14.99 a month. Nobody was paying any of that, which is why they went to the $1 thing. They're trying to buy their way into a market which has very few funds.
I say its cool.... free shit, but anyone buying hardware for that.... well, I have no empathy for you i.e. Stadia Voost.
If I were to guess what is going to happen.... Office 365 Consumer or Entertainment Premium subscription.... or something similar.
- Office 365 Consumer (Word, Publisher, Excel, Outlook, Access, OneDrive, Xbox Live Gold) say for $149.99 a year
- Office 365 Entertainment Premium (Word, Publisher, Excel, Outlook, Access, OneDrive, Xbox Live Gold, Xbox Game Pass, and xCloud) say for $239.99 a year
And this is why Microsoft needs to be broken up, not that they are competing but they are using areas where there is a monopoly and than bundling in services to kill competition, imo. Basically what they are trying to do to Slack and Zoom, imo.
For the record, I don't think this will happen in gaming.... I expect gaming revenue to continue to go down for MS generally but there could gain during the Fall and Xbone Sexy (probably yoy from the low levels this last year for a few quarters after that).... I have no idea why someone would buy Xbox as a Hardware at this point, but there will be some hold outs so expecting a yoy gain in the fall.... service revenue will never be able to pickup enough to even come close to filling in the gap... gaming at Microsoft will have to shrink once Satya figures it out drastically.
Microsoft is trying to crush Slack and Zoom by essentially giving away Teams for free.
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Phil has probably got say 2-4 years to find some real growth in subscription services or it will all get the axe, axeman cometh. Brave souls buying Xbox hardware, if you're not buying hardware or purchasing off the MS Store than no worries. They don't need people to find a dollar under the sofa cushions, they need 10s of millions of people paying real money per month or annually.
Yet another product cull raises questions about Microsoft's commitment to... anything, really
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