As Microsoft looks to grow horizontally rather than vertically, the Xbox community it has carefully curated over the past ten years has fractured.
I wrote a while ago that with Microsoft distracted, the Xbox console experience is suffering. I know that article was passed around and read internally, but right now, at least, I don't think Microsoft got the message, or perhaps more likely, it simply didn't matter. The only thing that matters is growth, and perhaps that growth may come at the expense of things we know and love today.
