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Splitting off the Xbox could allow Microsoft to focus on core products like Office and Windows. Over the past 10 years, Microsoft shares have underperformed the broader market -- the game developer mammoth size many have kept management unfocused and limited Microsoft's upside.
Vulcan Capital, Paul Allen's investment firm, has argued for an Xbox spinoff. Allen no longer has any management role at Microsoft, but as a co-founder, his word might have some weight. Likewise, some Wall Street analysts, including those at Nomura, have written about the potential benefits to an Xbox spinoff.
The article goes on to explain why this would be a horrendous calamity for Xbox, and why major consoles need a huge consumer electronics giant behind them. Nintendo, he says, has been held back by its need to make profit from hardware, unlike Sony and Microsoft, which have sold consoles at a loss. But then, Nintendo has usually done pretty nicely without carrying millions in corporate debt, so...
Everything you need to know about World of Warcraft: Warlords of Draenor | game developer Spot
This is a handy guide to all the new info about the latest (but apparently not final WoW expansion). We covered the announcement on Friday, but this article adds snippets garnered through the rest of Blizzcon. Here's some more on the new garrison addition:
The Garrison is your own personal fortress where you can customize the layout, appearance, and gameplay effects. Same-faction friends in your party can visit your base to check it out and trade resources, and it's a non-instanced area, so you'll be able to see it in the distance as you fly around Draenor.
The biggest addition to the Garrison are followers: You'll be able to collect followers, and "You can also allocate them to complete tasks -- things like crafting or gathering resources, which they'll do whether you're online or offline. "The resources you'll acquire during missions include both existing crafting reagents and Garrison-specific materials. For example, if you assign a follower to a mining mission, game developer could receive ore, but you might also unearth stone, a new kind of resource used to construct and upgrade buildings."
Game Developer
Splitting off the Xbox could allow Microsoft to focus on core products like Office and Windows. Over the past 10 years, Microsoft shares have underperformed the broader market -- the game developer mammoth size many have kept management unfocused and limited Microsoft's upside.
Vulcan Capital, Paul Allen's investment firm, has argued for an Xbox spinoff. Allen no longer has any management role at Microsoft, but as a co-founder, his word might have some weight. Likewise, some Wall Street analysts, including those at Nomura, have written about the potential benefits to an Xbox spinoff.
The article goes on to explain why this would be a horrendous calamity for Xbox, and why major consoles need a huge consumer electronics giant behind them. Nintendo, he says, has been held back by its need to make profit from hardware, unlike Sony and Microsoft, which have sold consoles at a loss. But then, Nintendo has usually done pretty nicely without carrying millions in corporate debt, so...
Everything you need to know about World of Warcraft: Warlords of Draenor | game developer Spot
This is a handy guide to all the new info about the latest (but apparently not final WoW expansion). We covered the announcement on Friday, but this article adds snippets garnered through the rest of Blizzcon. Here's some more on the new garrison addition:
The Garrison is your own personal fortress where you can customize the layout, appearance, and gameplay effects. Same-faction friends in your party can visit your base to check it out and trade resources, and it's a non-instanced area, so you'll be able to see it in the distance as you fly around Draenor.
The biggest addition to the Garrison are followers: You'll be able to collect followers, and "You can also allocate them to complete tasks -- things like crafting or gathering resources, which they'll do whether you're online or offline. "The resources you'll acquire during missions include both existing crafting reagents and Garrison-specific materials. For example, if you assign a follower to a mining mission, game developer could receive ore, but you might also unearth stone, a new kind of resource used to construct and upgrade buildings."