They way they continue to drag this out. May aswell just get out of the hardware biz.
Xbox gamers may aswell build steam boxes or get a nice all in one like a Corsair one or ASUS or something, for gamepass ( you can even play Sony games on their too these days) and buy a Nintendo for the other stuff.
What MS should do is assist that by making all BC games and our entire libraries migrateable to PC. We can already use all our Xbox’s. They will lose their Xbox audience but I don’t think they are all that bothered. They are playing a different game now.
I have said in the past that subs are the future. Maybe Xbox is what is stopping them buying the whole gaming biz ( which is what they would like to do anyway) as a third party publisher they will face less backlash in achieving this from the likes of the CMA…. Because Xbox won’t be a thing. Gamepass will be though.
In the end… they get what they want. They always do.
Sony fans will be upset…because those games will be locked to a service that is not on PlayStation . And even Xbox fans will be upset…because they no longer have a console to shout about… but they will get over it. Just as sega fans did before them. Just as Atari fans did ever so long ago. The industry will continue to evolve and change .. the rest of us won’t care because we will have custom consoles made from PC parts that play everything. Whether by way of subs, emulation or whatever the hell else. Welcome to the future
I guess the PC master race thing really is a thing after all. I think even Nintendo will … get with the times… eventually. Only seems shocking right now, but when it happen it happens. Times change.