Do you really think there are only two options, winning or losing? Microsoft has by far the most popular gaming OS, their published games perform extremely well, and their latest earnings report showed historic results across the board. Framing it as just a winner or loser seems overly simplistic. Given those two options, I would struggle to call this a loser. It does not look like one to me.
I remember it having some issues where it caused performance issues or even crashes in games. Did that get straightened out?
Never been an issue for me so I'm assuming it did.
It's perfectly fine and having Game Pass, Play Anywhere, and Cloud intuitively accessible in the same app is really nice. The only reason people hate on it is because 1) it isn't Steam and 2) nerds love to rage at Microsoft.
Yes, because it's not that deep. when somebody says "intrusive in-game overlays...This is why you lost". They mean xbox to their competitors in gaming like Steam or PS. It doesn't mean they are in financial ruin or that they are losing to Linux/MacOS. I'm not sure why you're going so deep to frame it as anything else.
The same people using MAU as a useful statistic obviously, you're logged into your xbox account to use this shit.
Difference being, HZD has sold something like 20 million copies. That's more than the last three Halos combined, and only a couple of million off the entire Forza Horizon and Motorsport series total franchise sales.
