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Why Microsoft is closing Xbox Entertainment Studios

18/07/2014

Microsoft’s grand ambitions for original TV content are over. Yesterday, the company confirmed it would be closing Xbox Entertainment (...)
Microsoft’s grand ambitions for original TV content are over. Yesterday, the company confirmed it would be Xbox Entertainment Studios in the coming months. Some projects will continue, such as the Signal to Noise documentary series and Spielberg-produced Halo television show, but otherwise Xbox Originals is dead. It’s hardly surprising. A report by Recode suggests the studio, established in September 2012, is “disorganized” and “struggling” to clinch important business deals. Dawn Chmielewski paints quite a bleak picture in her article, but of greater importance is the business rationale behind Microsoft’s original television aspirations. Unlike Netflix, the company wanted its Originals library –... This story continues at The Next Web
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