The founder of Microsoft's video game division, Laura Fryer, said that the console business is effectively dead. This is in line with insights from The Verge about the corporation's plans to stop releasing new devices and start licensing the brand to third-party manufacturers. The first bell of the new strategy is believed to be the release of the Xbox Ally portable console from Asus.

Thus, the story of Xbox can be drawn to a close, if not a full stop. A story that can easily be adapted into a production drama due to its richness in stunning twists and turns.

How Microsoft, despite the initial failure, drove the market development, moved the leader into the catch-up category, and then ruined everything with its own poor decisions - in the review LIGA.net.

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