Yea, assuming that once again, they were expecting a massive cloud push to happen in Nov and Dec, they likely had a bunch of Direct-to-Cloud controllers sitting around. This was leaked back earlier in the year and should have come out by now.
But with cloud being paused again, they probably have to make the decision to resume normal controllers or make cloud controllers the default.
We have tons of information and officially released information about their push for android and cloud. Thst was supposed to happen in Nov/Dec. we know those plans got stuffed by late Oct.
We have no official information about cancelling console strategies and what not. But everyone seems to be going that route.
Xbox is certainly not meeting internal targets, it’s clear they’ve been pivoting, but likely all of this because they’ve put a lot of momentum behind their cloud push, only to be stuffed. It makes it seem like Xbox has been sitting idle with no direction, but if you look closely they had
A) COD on game pass
B) Xbox store ready for android
C) Cloud components ready for players
D) cloud contorllers
All aligned and ready for November. Unfortunately that fell flat and oddly no leakers talk about that. That’s because leakers are all 3rd party folks, retailers etc. so the great pivot had to happen to make up for all completely failed launch. And now we see the effect of
A) lack of series x hardware
B) lack of controllers
C) exclusives all going multiplatform
D) push towards 3rd party mobile hardware
E) this is an Xbox campaign.
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