Jarod McChicken
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Looking at Phil Spencer's activity on Twitter, ShockersDual reports a statement from the head of Xbox about Microsoft Azure platform, aka the power of the cloud that was used for Titanfall and the upcoming Crackdown 3.
Please lock the thread if this is common knowledge, but this is new to me. I think some people could find it strange from a console war perspective, but this illustrates once again how Microsoft gives priority to its global business, not the little battlefield that is the console war for them.
We knew that already with Minecraft. Despite spending 2,5 billion dollars to acquire Mojang, Microsoft kept the game running on PlayStation platforms and even added it recently to Wii U.
This should also put to rest any crazy theories (if they are still alive ?) about Microsoft buying the Havok technology to get some exclusive tools, or prevent rivals Sony and Nintendo to access the middleware. This is obviously the opposite and it's a global business strategy again here : the more people will use Havok outside Microsoft, the more Microsoft will be happy.
Please lock the thread if this is common knowledge, but this is new to me. I think some people could find it strange from a console war perspective, but this illustrates once again how Microsoft gives priority to its global business, not the little battlefield that is the console war for them.
We knew that already with Minecraft. Despite spending 2,5 billion dollars to acquire Mojang, Microsoft kept the game running on PlayStation platforms and even added it recently to Wii U.
This should also put to rest any crazy theories (if they are still alive ?) about Microsoft buying the Havok technology to get some exclusive tools, or prevent rivals Sony and Nintendo to access the middleware. This is obviously the opposite and it's a global business strategy again here : the more people will use Havok outside Microsoft, the more Microsoft will be happy.
Proper grammar there, improper here, but trivial either way. I just wanted to know.
