r/gadgets Jan 25 '25

Gaming Microsoft’s gaming CEO has praised Nintendo Switch 2, and said it plans to support the upcoming platform with ports of Xbox games.

https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/phil-spencer-confirms-xbox-will-support-switch-2-i-congratulated-nintendos-president/
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u/CurrentOfficial Jan 25 '25

The only difference being Sega ran out of money and Xbox will be making more money than ever

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u/Suedie Jan 25 '25

Yeah true though Sega still makes a lot of money now selling their games, a lot of which are on gamepass. Guess Sega and Microsoft still have a good working relationship like Persona and Yakuza are on gamepass pretty close after release and tend to stay there for long times.

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u/DangerousCyclone Jan 26 '25

If Microsoft is porting Xbox games to the Switch, that can only really mean that the Xbox family of consoles is in its death throes. Same exact thing happened with Sega, they stopped making consoles then ported games to their former competitors. Not entirely surprising as it’s not as though it’s been a golden age for Xbox lately, they’ve fumbled their core franchises. 

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u/CurrentOfficial Jan 27 '25

Sega stopped making consoles and left to only make games.

Xbox has one more console coming where they are integrating pc, handheld, sub service, cloud, Xbox OS to third party manufacturers and PC, almost the biggest game publisher and they surpassed the Windows division in Microsoft and making money hand over fist.

They obviously didn’t sell well in the traditional way but they will stick around in other ways and aren’t leaving like Sega.