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Microsoft reminds us just how big the Xbox business has become | The DeanBeat


Microsoft won the Summer Game Fest with the best games and broadest portfolio of titles coming for 2024 and 2025.

Titles like Doom, Gears of War, Indiana Jones, Flight Simulator, Call of Duty: Black Ops 6, Fable, Stalker 2, Perfect Dark and many more. Gates and Steve Ballmer brought in adult supervision in the form of Office guru Robbie Bach and Internet shipper J Allard with the mission of dealing with Sony and Nintendo. As Matthew Ball noted, a complex set of forces put many game jobs in jeopardy, and Microsoft was just one of numerous companies that had guessed wrong about upward growth.

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