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Definitely possible - I have a hard time thinking they are pulling their existing retail presence, retailers are filling the gap w/ PS and Nintendo, and then are going to open it back up when a new Xbox comes out.

That seems unlikely to me.
That's kinda what Sega did with the Saturn in the West way before the Dreamcast launched.
 
Even if they build a new Xbox their latest price models show that they are out of touch. $800 for a Series X? They must be smoking crack! Their new console would cost more than a high end PC.

They need an entirely new leadership from the top to the bottom. The current leadership has ran the X box name into the ground. Too much focus on DEI and not enough focus on Quality.
 
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Never doubt the greatest gamer of all time!

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His shit eating grin is behind the entire downfall of Xbox.
 
Could this be a result of a formal Sony announcement that they will be having a new handheld? Could they have jumped into the handheld with a system that wasn't going to be up to par with Sony's, and they wanted to reset and possibly redesign some things?
 
I mean given what has been happening I can't say they won't have another brain fart and decide to ditch bwc for the next-gen machine - but then it really isn't a console *at all*
Once they use a Windows version and hardware standard enough to run regular unmodified PC versions then they'll struggle to call it a console.
Backwards compatibility has been gone before on consoles so that has nothing to do with it.
 
Could this be a result of a formal Sony announcement that they will be having a new handheld? Could they have jumped into the handheld with a system that wasn't going to be up to par with Sony's, and they wanted to reset and possibly redesign some things?
It would take both engineering and legal genius to outdesign a Sony handheld. It's not impossible, but Sony have decades of experience and patents that make a truly dedicated Xbox handheld a difficult proposition.

Xbox had no answer for the PS Portal. If we assume that the PlayStation handheld will be a supercharged version of the Portal -- untethered gaming, compatible with past and future software, all of the DualSense features including new features like buttons that light up -- then Xbox are in big trouble.
 
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