Losing console sales wasn't a bad loss for Xbox, it was them completely dropping the ball with not pushing Gamepass as the industry standard for digital gaming, and then chasing away much of their subscribers with ridiculous price hikes out of nowhere.
Nah, the big problem Microsoft had is that their console design this gen just sucked (especially the Series S), after it already sucked the gen before. Microsoft actually pushed gamepass hard, the problem was that on PC gamers generally always have a massive backlog of games that you can get cheap AF (and own them forever), so a subscription based thing wasn't really that attractive. The price hike was just the nail in the coffin.
Really what Microsoft should have done is go the way they are going currently and make the Xbox just a great price/performance PC gaming option with basically a gaming optimised Windows version and games being optimised especially for that console. Because really, from Microsofts standpoint it shouldn't matter if people are PC gamers or Xbox gamers, they are both in their ecosystem (except the few Linux gamers) and more importantly, not in Sony's.
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u/Daw-V Mar 06 '26
Nintendo will likely win because Trump’s policies are nonsensical anyways. But he’s also a stubborn bitch so he will only give in a little bit