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[gooner4life_uk]

Microsoft want Xbox to fail at this point, too many people bought up subsidised Gamepass subscriptions stacking them for years and years, Microsoft are earning the equivalent of each one of these people buying a game on average once every 2.5 years, Microsoft wish Xbox could go away yesterday and they can just concentrate on the PC market and PlayStation for game sales, they will get a nice boost when the Switch 2 is out and they can sell Call of Duty on there too.

 

[RetroGamingUK]

I can see why they’re winding down Xbox.

The consoles are sold at a loss and at mid generation they’re only at about 29m units sold.

That small user base is barely buying games so the business isn’t sustainable.

Sega went through this with the Saturn, by early 1997 they had to reduce the amount of consoles they sold.

Unlike Sega they’re not going to ditch their platform immediately, but it’s fairly clear now that the Xbox Series S/X playform isn’t going to grow and Microsoft don’t really have much intention in growing it.