TWO new consoles are being launched within the next two years which is more than they released in the last 3. Yet nobody claims they are leaving until after we learn of the Scorpio. 

I think people just like to say the opposite of what is infront of them sometimes. 

Someone believed they would leave the console market? It wouldt make sense if they weren't investing in a new Slim Xbox One model and the Scorpio thingy, but otherwise...

Maybe we should find out about Scorpio before we know more about their direction. I think they are going PC but continue with hardware. They won't drop Xbox but their hardware will be Steambox like. This should enable MS to be both in the PC and Console market in a unified ecosystem.

I think it's clear MS wants a good chunk of the PC market, we just don't know how they will go about it.

Without Steam and locking their games behind the Windows 10's store, they will have a hard time trying to be successful on the PC Market.

Their actions... Like announcing two consoles?

The "always on" fiasco was the beginning of the end. Xbix One losing all its exclusives to PC was another step in this process.

Xbox Scorpion is like a quite powerful PC in a box. And since Xbox got rid of all its exclusives to PC, Scorpion is gonna fail in sales against Sony.

Gradually in 2017, Microsoft will cancel games it thinks have low chance to become profitable. This has the effect that gamers really can see how the Xbox console exclusive lineup of games is much smaller than Sony's. This is talked about lot in E3 2017.

The key next step towards Microsoft leaving the business is when it becomes clear that all the Xbox Windows PC games (the PC versions of Qunatum Breaks, Scalebound, Gears of War 4, Halo 6, Forza Horizons 3 etc) have failed because PC gamers dislike the Windows store. The MS PC games strategy has zero chance to succeed if they don't put the games on Steam. But that on the other hand would cut all the profits from the PC games and there wouldn't be any platform. So Microsoft is in a roch and a hard place.

At that point, when at the same time, now we're in 2018, Xbox is being outsold 3 to 1 by Sony in the console market, Microsoft will realize it's a lost cause and the Xbox brand will be sold for cheap to another company. This could happen already in 2018. After this there is total collaps. Selling a console just doesn't work. The aura of negativity and failure is too strong and gamers will feel it. The other company realizes that there's nothing to do, Xbox Scorpion sales just keep declining, so they will cease supporting the platform, terminate all remaining games in developent and within another 1- 1.5 years, that should be the year 2019, it's all declared dead.

Their actions... Like announcing all of their exclusives are being ported to win10 and steam?