PC is not a platform for people who prefer consoles. It's funny how this works on one hand but is denied when it's on the other hand...
Only applies to people already entrenched.
Those can add up to between 40-50 million users in the worst case during this generation.... I don't know if you know how much that user base can generate in times of subscriptions, microtransactions, digital, DLCs, GTA VI...
Again, console users want to play on consoles....
A premium console would only make matters worse for them. There's nothing their hardware offers that's unique, even down to the controllers.
Nothing more than your assumption.....
A console with premium hardware can attract many hardcore users. Among other things, it would serve to ensure the permanence of your loyal core users. Having a premium console does not mean not accompanying it with another more affordable one...
They've failed to innovate and the response by the market has been the response.
Again your own assumption...
Firstly, the hardware is the last problem for XBOX in this generation when it comes to capturing the attention of users. There are many others, starting with the lack of marketing, delays in production and laziness in making an effort to achieve users beyond the USA and UK. Every first party Game day one on PC (XBO went 4 years without sharing games with PC)
Second. When it comes to innovation, you never know what the future holds. You talk as if MS had no potential to innovate or as if SONY were the example of continuous innovation and incapable of disappointing in that regard...
That said, we're talking about "reasons" for people to continue buying Xbox consoles if their first party games end up being released sooner or later on competing consoles....
As I said, the first thing would be to know what minimum number of users MS would understand enough to understand it was necessary to bet on its console business..... 30-40-50-60-70 million?? That's where the question is.
My personal opinion is that what generates a loyal user base of (in the worst case) 40 million when it is today irrejectable for MS. It is by far the main source of income for MS's gaming business and the main source of long-term Gamepass subscriptions. They compensate with the PC user base... Xbox consoles are today the basis of their ecosystem, where they have control.
MS seeks to create an ecosystem where it decides and controls, not depending on the ecosystem of others And PC is a market controled by Valve .
It's funny because that's what some of you defended 2 months ago in the ABK acquisition thread..... As always, it is the narrative that rules.
There is a lot of confusion and ambiguity on the part of MS, we all agree on that..... But if we think slowly and see the reality.... That reality says that MS is going to continue launching console hardware, it has a roadmap. We Will see a new XBOX console. Sara Bond was not given the specific task of head of XBOX hardware if there was no plan to continue releasing hardware.
What type of product/console is MS going to launch? One with the goal of selling 35-40 million? If that is the goal then releasing games on PS and Switch is an understandable strategy.
One with the goal of selling 60+ million? Then the strategy of making as many exclusives as possible will be necessary.