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The Xbox oil company and a mobile future.
Microsoft’s lawyer references comments from Xbox CFO Tim Stuart discussing the potential of mobile and Call of Duty mobile specifically. He compares mobile to electric cars:
We don’t want to be the oil company when the world shifts to 100 percent electric cars
Obviously the oil part here is consoles. He clarifies his comments:
You just don’t want to be on a business model that won’t exist in the future.
That doesn’t mean Microsoft thinks Xbox consoles are about to die, but it sure means they don’t see much revenue opportunity there compared to the mobile market.
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