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Xbox's CEO wants its games to cater to 'more than a billion people each day', or 24 times more than the peak population of Steam, which is delusional (www.pcgamer.com)
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[–] 69 points 2 months ago* (1 child)

that’s one eight of the earth’s population, all playing xbox on the same day

it’s meaningless ceospeak to make investors salivate. this will not happen.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 months ago*

    That’s one eighth of the earth’s population, all playing Xbox every day.

    That's more than five times as many daily players as total Xbox consoles sold in the past 25 years.

    I agree that it is not going to happen. I love playing video games, but I don't play them every day. Even when I do play, it's not always on the same console/computer/device.

    The only way that MS can get even remotely close to one billion daily users is with mobile gaming. Most of what I can find with a quick search indicates that nearly 75% of the world's population has a smartphone. That kind of hardware distribution is hard to beat. But they would need a thousand apps that each have a million daily players to meet that goal, which is simply unrealistic, even for a company of MS's size.

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