I think the whole acquisition drama has put people off from the Xbox brand. It put me. I immediately sold my S when the whole shitshow started.
Xbox has just weird vibes all over since then, like mostly everything from Microsoft. There’s so little inovation. They failed with their phones, their laptops are ridiculous compared to Apple hardware, they just live from government and corporate negotiations to sell OS OEMs. They can buy any publisher on earth and gamepass/xbox will still look tainted and kind of corny. Azure, Office and AI is where it’s at. They’re a trillion dollar company for a reason anyway.
PlayStation isn’t looking much better these days with making their console a potential Marvel/Horizon delivery service.