Microsoft has spent years subsidizing Xbox rather than profiting from it, CEO Satya Nadella acknowledged this week, as he addressed the gaming division’s need for a new approach.

His comments came during a Wednesday evening taping of The New York Times’ “Hard Fork” podcast, released Friday. Hosts Kevin Roose and Casey Newton pressed Nadella on the future of Xbox a few hours after the division’s leadership signaled an upcoming reset.

“No one can accuse Microsoft of not having invested for the last 25 years,” Nadella said of the Xbox and games business. “And now we have to turn this into a sustainable business.”

  • rockSlayer@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    11 hours ago

    Fuck off. Microsoft’s entire gaming business model is:

    • buy a profitable studio close to a new release
    • round of layoffs
    • brag about profits from the new release
    • another round of layoffs
    • force increasingly lower quality games to be released with more player exploitation
    • allow a high quality game to be released
    • celebrate profits
    • layoff and close the studio