Regardless of how obvious it looks now a non insignificant group of people actually believed Xbox had a shot this gen.Did anyone honestly expect the xbox to sell well this gen? Even the 360 was still outsold by the ps3 and came in last place
Personally, I knew the next Xbox would flop before it was even announced, the Xbox One sucked. I remember there were rummours of Sony having a Series S type console and I despised the idea.
MS was actually pretty lucky, if not for the pandemic and lack of PS5 consoles the Series S would've sold even less, it's an awful console, one of the worst consoles ever. Now Sony get to capitalize on their good decision with the PS5 Pro while Xbox is pretty much dead.
A new gen is not a clean reset, specially now that people have digital libraries.I thought the Series would do better than the Xbox One, which I felt was not a very high bar considering the investments they done in the latter years of the One.
But they can't even manage that.
The difference in quality between the PS4 and Xbox One libraries is staggering, none of that is forgotten when a new gen starts.
The only surprise about the Series consoles is how they were able to fumble pretty much everything, I can't think of a single relevant thing that they got right.
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