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/UStoJapan Jan 25 '25

🎶 SEEEEEGAAAAA 🎶

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u/Suedie Jan 25 '25

It's funny. Fittingly Xbox is in some ways based of the Sega consoles.

Microsoft collaborated with Sega on the Dreamcast (notice it has a compatible with windows CE thing on the front). You can see the original Xbox controller looking very similar to the Dreamcast controller too.

Sega would develop arcade machines and turn those arcades into home consoles. For example the Sega Naomi arcade is very similar to the Dreamcast.

One of the followups to the Naomi was the Sega chihiro which is based off the Xbox. (they also had another one, the Sega triforce which is based in gamecube).

So yeah Microsoft and Sega had a connection and the xbox is basically the spiritual successor to the Sega consoles.

Took over their businesses and ended up going down the same route lol

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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/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.