TheStreet TV's Jack Mohr has already found his top European stocks to own in 2015. Now he's looking for the top five S&P 500 stocks to own in the new year.
Mohr has already said his fifth stock is social media juggernaut Facebook (FB) and No. 4 is the struggling financial giant Citigroup (C) . Who's third? Microsoft (MSFT) , Mohr said Wednesday.
One of the big catalysts going into the new year also happens to be somewhat of a "bold prediction," he said -- speculating that Microsoft would spinoff its Xbox business.
Xbox is near the top of its sales cycle, meaning Microsoft would likely fetch top dollar for the entity. Not that the $88.7 billion in cash and short-term investments are small by any means, but a spinoff of Xbox would give the tech giant even more cash. This could allow for an increase in its dividend or potentially in the company's share buyback program.
Microsoft's Activision subsidiary announced today that it is opening a new game development studio to take advantage of the huge talent pool growing in Poland. It'll be the second Activision studio based in the region, joining Infinity Ward Krakow, although this studio is, in fact, not working on Call of Duty.
Microsoft is pushing for no "red line" for what games could come to PlayStation, and it all revolves around Satya Nadella and CFO Amy Hood's plans to increase every department's margins.
"The plan to move Xbox games to other platforms is codenamed "Latitude" internally, and I know there's debate and unease at Microsoft about whether or not this is a good idea. More upcoming Microsoft-owned games slated for PlayStation are already being developed. At least for now, they're potentially obvious games you'd most likely expect. And yes, while it's true Microsoft is a prolific publisher on PlayStation already, it has typically revolved around specific franchises like Minecraft. From what I've heard, Microsoft is pushing for no "red line" for what games could come to PlayStation, and it all revolves around Satya Nadella and CFO Amy Hood's mandate to increase every department's margins. "
Yeah, they are going to kill Xbox hardware.
i think it will kill off the xbox brand. windows will be fine.
but there is and would be a chance that xbox might be killed off in the future. if they fail to make the money they put in. imo.
"Microsoft is pushing for no "red line" for what games could come to PlayStation"
Forza and Starfield next?
In the words of Phil Spencer when he was talking about Nintendo last year
“It's just taking a long time for Microsoft to see that their future exists off of their own hardware"
With Arkane Austin no more and Lyon living for who knows how long, the superb Dishonored is in serious danger; Microsoft cannot be trusted.
I love the Dishonored series so much and really want Dishonored 3. Microsoft better not screw this up.
I mean, I think the fans will probably kill Arkane Lyon by cooking up reasons to hate whatever they do next without playing it. I've never seen a game so artificially disliked as Deathloop.
Lol, why don't we just say, we are worried about all studios owned by MS now. They will keep closing studios until they have none left ...🙄
I think it's becoming clear based on matt bootys comments there's no future for any IP that can't sell above 10 million within the launch window. But is also a small game that gives them prestige
/S it's beyond a joke right now
Well MS is now the 2nd most valuable company on earth
recently passing Exxon Moble
http://www.foxbusiness.com/...
The Xbox is too intrenched in MS to go anywhere, Say hello Cortona
The Xbox division has been highly profitable since 2008 inclusive.
And the brand has just had it's best year ever
increasing marketshare by around 50% from the 360.
ppl buy other money making MS licensed products to go along with their new console:
-XBL
-second controller
-play and charge kit
-Kinect tv stand
-more games
outperform who?
Too be honest if it did happen that they did sell it everyone who has a X1 and is going too buy a X1 in the future would find it really hard too trust that company who buys it.
Also there chances who winning this gen would be very slim and they would loose millions or even billions in the long term trying too make a profit or even making there money back at all. Not many companies can take that chance like MS did.
selling and spinning off are not remotely the same thing , not that either is going to happen .
Xbox is a massive financial burden and selling that is highly unlikely.
They'd shut it down before they tried to spin it off.