you know it’s a bad Cloudflare outage when it even takes out down detector 😅

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For the Xbox platform division, hitting 30% profit margins has required a drastic rethink. For individual games, it's not a completely unrealistic target... except they're all released day-one on Xbox Game Pass, cannibalizing sales. Much more in the story www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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EA's bombshell deal to go private could be good for investors, but bad for employees. Leveraged buyouts almost always lead to immediate mass layoffs, and more than half of EA's current cash flow will likely go toward servicing the debt. This week's column: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

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A lot of people are (understandably) focused on the Saudi Arabia and Kushner part of this, but the far bigger immediate impact will come from the new private EA being on the hook for $20 billion in debt. That could mean mass layoffs, more aggressive monetization, and other big cost-cutting measures

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How to sell a video game console: 1) Make your console more expensive than the other consoles 2) Also put all of your games on the other consoles

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