- Ensure a stronger launch lineup, inclusive of Fable and stalled Gears 5 a year. Have Halo infinite ready with more content out the gate
- The Series S would be par with the X minus the disk drive
- Figured our a different use for 100b or whatever they've paid out in total for Bethesda and Activision. Marketing deals, exclusive content
Of course, all of this is still likely futile. Of all the things Phil Spencer has said that you can take with a grain of salt, the most blatantly honest thing he's said is Xbox lost the worst gen last time around as far as people investing in digital libraries which locks them into the ecosystem. As an Xbox gamepass user, you're buying into that knowng that those games are only accessible as long as you subscribe and if you make a choice to stop doing so, you have no hard tie to their ecosystem or console. Meanwhile, I have hundreds of dollars worth of games tied into my PSN account that I can only access by buying Playstation hardware. Xbox, through their day one PC releases and play anywhere initiatives have reduced the need to own the console.