Yes the Xbox console is going away but mostly because of the point that Microsoft's money is better spent making software... its kinda their claim to fame (Windows).

Also look at their history in the hardware arena...Xbox OG, Zune, Nokia, Kinect,... surface pro is excellent and it took forever to get there. And you c as n be sure Holo Lens will probably fail too.

Ho if i were them i would keep surface, come out with a high end variant for gaming (with Xbox branding) and play to the strengths of their moneymakers. The Surface pros need to be priced high enough to make sure they can make up for no live subs.

I don't think XBox will die as a brand, at least not in the near future.

It depends from what MS really want; we will see. I can still see the successor of X1 in Nov 2018-2019.

Well people want to play pc games on their consoles and more devs are releasing their games on pc so I don't always get the 'but it is also on pc' even games like minecraft that is way better on pc and don't need a demanding pc and don't need to pay to play online is selling great on consoles. Then their is also this second wave of Japanese games coming to pc. Well ofcourse you can be like Nintendo and don't have that many pc games on your console and that's why gamers don't want it.

Microsoft doesn't really have a reason to make consoles and Sony humiliated them this gen.

No idea how the next generation is going to play out but they're not in a good spot.

EDIT: enyone notice how the sales of the current gen almost follows an exponential plot? Ps4 doubles Xbone who doubles Wii U.

MS is so rich that they can turn the Xbox into a company hobby. Its not going anywhere and MS will continue to stick it up to Sony and Nintendo just for fun.

Out of curiosity, is the reasons you gave why they invented Xbox your opinion, popular knowledge or an official fact?

If it's your opinion I'll stand by my statement of this being a 'tripe thread'. 

The Xbox console business will continue because it's not about fanboy wars, its about a Windows presence in the livingroom. It always has been. It was to fight off Apple from clawing  into the space 15+ yrs ago.

A lower cost toy box you can buy at retail is what the livingroom gaming/multimedia consumer buys into. The vast majority of gamers in this space are not techies, and value convenience and the bespoke experience.  For that they will always need a specialized product to offer consumers.

Besides, what makes you think in an era where these companies are getting gamers to lfork up subscription revenue that they would have any desire to exit such a business?

Think about that: Sony and MS are getting gamers to PAY A YEARLY FEE for the luxury of fully using the devices they already sold you, and people are doing it.

Don't kid yourselves. They didn't just assume the undertaking of manufacturing Surface, to let go of their biggest CE brand that sells a ton of software and is one of the few of their business with a mindshare amongst day-to-day , non-enterprise consumers.

The idea that MS is the least commited to console gaming comes from a twisted fanboy mentality. No one puts more money into their first party IP than MS does for Halo. Many steps they've taken this gen say otherwise too- their investment in Killer Instinct, experimenting with different models (F2P Fable Legends), purchasing Gears of War IP , the well oiled Forza franchise putting out quality software, the investment into new AAA IP like Quantum Break, RECORE etc...

Fanboys need to stop being delusional simply because MS doesn't play by their rules.  The Xbox is a platform above just being a console, one that will be open to 200M+ Windows 10 machines. The potential of that alone when you consider there are 125M+ active Steam users(all gamers!) is better than any in gaming. Users are there already, you dont have to wait for unit sales to sell gaming software!

Anyone can buy an 'Xbox' game. Anyone can connect to their friends and rack up Achievevos. That is not a commitment to gamers? Is that not a commitment to the Xbox brand?

It doesn't work like this :)

MS makes XBox to make money, and will continue to do it until it's productive, and X1 is productive.  Nobody nowdays does business just for fun.

Could be true. If so, then fair enough. I will make the switch to windows.

Well. All consoles will be gone in two decades. They'll be services or dead. Maybe you'll have a set top box then if you want to.
Basically that is why Sony bought Gaikai>Playstation Now>Playstation as a service you actually don't need a console for.
That is why Nintendo is experimenting with mobile phones and looking at their patents cloud services.