The Xbox orb: A black hole or an explosion coming?
The Xbox orb: A black hole or an explosion coming?
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Microsoft reminds us just how big the Xbox business has become | The DeanBeat

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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  • 6 min

Microsoft won the Summer Game Fest with the best games and broadest portfolio of titles coming for 2024 and 2025. It was an impressive display for a company that had seemed like it had betrayed trust this year.

In fact, Microsoft showed that the games it unveiled at its own event could be bigger and better than the Summer Game Fest that had two full hours of games from everybody. Many people said it was Xbox’s best showing ever, and I would agree with that — even though there wasn’t an E3 this year.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.