Ah, excellent, we haven't had a proper "xbox is actually winning" article in a while.
Yes, Game Pass which hasn't seen any significant growth in 5+ years despite paying $100b to buy up two of the worlds largest publishers, and putting their service on every device that can run it but is selling half the consoles of the Nintendo Switch 1 is actually winning. And ignore the fact that apparently the last Game Pass price hike caused them to lose a third of th...
"Someone has to be there besides Sony."
There always is competition, Nintendo, PC, Mobile, Streaming, and anything that takes time. The competition doesn't have to be a trillion dollar company that openly admits trying to spend the competition out of business by controlling the flow of software though buying publishers.
Microsoft's "competition" has had a negative effect on the gaming industry for the last 25 years.