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What happens when you put all your eggs into one basket?

But what if itwasdown for weeks again, like it was in 2011?

PlayStation remote play on PC

PlayStation Network being down likely cost Microsoft hundreds of thousands, if not millions of dollars in lost revenue on games like Call of Duty and Minecraft.

One of those strategies notoriously revolves around putting itsXbox exclusive games onto PlayStation to find new users.

But what if Xbox had totally decided to shut down its entire first-party ecosystem?

Although being able to control the defaults on Windows 11 hasn’t exactly helped it in recent years.

Lumia 950 and Surface

With no phone platform to call its own, Microsoft now depends entirely on Google and Apple to “play nice” to gain access to customers on mobile devices.

What does this have to do with Xbox, though?

The death of Windows Phone and even Microsoft’s Android phones like theSurface Duocertainly seems to suggest otherwise.

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