Article starts off strong but the latter items don’t matter much like VR etc

“If Microsoft plays its cards right, the Xbox Series X could even win the next-gen battle.”

I wonder if Xbox Series X does really well if Microsoft would go back to proudly producing hardware sales numbers

MS needs to focus on only 1 thing with Xbox and it's the ability to play games, games, games, and games.
That's the only thing
If MS can communicate this message: we play your past, your current, and even your future games with ease
It will be successful.

Lmao! Comeback story. Lmao! Win next generation. These crazy articles.

Yes. They need exclusives. If Disney put all their content on Netflix, what's the likelihood that consumers would subscribe to Disney Plus? That's right. Less likely. "But, it's just options." Lol. Keep telling yourselves that.

Power will not mean as much as you think. OG Xbox and Xbox One X proved that power didn't increase sales over Sony. Or the industry would have noticed the sales increase. Or a lower price. There's still this thing called "worldwide."

A console focused on playing games. Wow. That's a great idea. Why didn't Sony and Nintendo think of that./S

You don't need XBL? Lol! You can't even play F2P games without it. And service will not tip the scale.

Kinect doomed an entire generation? Now that's revisionist BS. It was lack of good games for Kinect and AAA games created from a company worth a trillion. And, by the time Microsoft joins the VR party, Sony would already have had 800-1,000 VR games and experiences to play. They're already late to the party.

X4. It's simple. But nope. They won't use it as it seems inferior to PS5. Which is simple and to the point. You know what PlayStation it is. All these other crazy names just leads to confusion. Series X? "Does that mean a better one it's coming out soon after that one? "Then I'll wait for that one." Do you see what Series X has already done by just being named that? It's a fail name.

GAMES GAMES GAMES

Tell me again how the multiplatform strategy was supposed to fix everything. Look at your results and compare them to Nintendo, which keeps thriving with exclusives. Your loyal fans are gone. And let’s not forget the pile of IPs you purchased only to let them rot.

The worst thing is this is down from last years numbers/expectations which was down from the previous years numbers/expectations. You think about how long “down” has been a consistent part of the communication and you realize those subscriptions are what’s holding that boat together. The price cut of gamespass is still a price raise in a string of price raises. They are trying to use players to offset the missing revenue. Now call of duty is out of gamespass, which is literally WHY they bought the company. To draw people to the subscription. They realized they missed a boatload of money and that wasn’t sustainable. Now you pay for it like you would have if they never bought the company… so why buy the company? Mind you those billions still need to be paid back. Yeah it gives you a chance to say we make the biggest FPS… but the internal conversations must be brutal at high level on topics that really matter. Like revenue. Profitability. And ROI for the shopping spree.

Is this like the 10th quarter in a row they're down 33% on hardware how is that even mathematically possible. You would think their mediocrity would Plateau