Astray
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This feels to me like a soft wind-down of their platform.Second - my understanding about Xbox's interest in HW going forward paint a very different picture from what folks imagine, based on convos i've had with folks in MS and in Xbox itself. Yes, a new machine is coming, but its not gonna be this HW approach intended to take on Sony or Nintendo. Enthusiast-focused, expensive, and with the only selling power being the GP sub itself, while software releases on all major platforms. Thats the future of Xbox.
Make the console expensive with no exclusives so no one sane would buy it, keep everything day 1 on your sub service so no one buys games and then pesters you about preservation once you close the servers in half a decade or so..
This way you have a gentle exit that won't ruffle any investor feathers because now you have Mobile, COD and a ton of other things hopefully making more money on PC/PS/Nintendo platforms.