Games Journalists love to accuse everyone of accusing them of having very strong anti-Xbox bias, but with articles where they are literally imagining a future without Xbox (despite Microsoft flat out stating they aren’t exiting the console industry) its really hard to believe they arent very anti-Xbox biased.

Edit: Take this snippet for example:

Microsoft head of gaming Phil Spencer last month revealed plans to release what would previously have been exclusively Xbox games for use on rival platforms, as part of a new focus on cloud-based gaming.

This sentence is intentionally misleading by omitting the fact that these were only four games that are more than one year old. The sentence implies that there were many new games and that the purpose was because Xbox would be exiting the console market to be a cloud-gaming service.

The purpose was NOT that at all. The purpose was to allow other platforms a taste of what Xbox has to offer its playerbase. A loss leader, in a gaming sense. They outright confirmed games like Indiana Jones and Starfield will remain Xbox console exclusives.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Microsoft’s decision to ease off its 23-year competition with Sony and Nintendo over supremacy in games hardware has opened a path for Japan’s return as the world’s undisputed home of the console.

The prospect of a new, less internationalized era of console wars has raised hopes of happier times for the Japanese survivors but has also caused analysts and investors to revisit the question of how much longer the whole genre of dedicated games machines will continue to exist.

“It may not happen immediately because the technology of cloud gaming is clearly not ready yet, but from what Microsoft is indicating, there is a possibility that we go back to an all-Japan console industry with Sony and Nintendo each dominating their part of that market in their different, unique ways,” said David Gibson, an analyst at MST Financial.

“It was tough enough for Sony arguing the need to investors for a PS5—and a lot of people at the time were saying that the PS5 could be the end of the line—but Microsoft’s commitment to console gaming helped,” said Smithers.

Microsoft, which has spent huge sums on acquisitions of game studios such as the $75 billion purchase of Activision, is facing similar issues with its hardware economics.

Microsoft, he said, could pump up returns by offering its games across different platforms, while Nintendo and Sony would face “less intense competition” and benefit from having a wider choice of titles for customers.

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