So where do they publish there active monthly users?

I'd prefer it if fanboys would shut up.

Your mistake is in assuming we dont dismiss Scalebound based on our own opinions. When Scalebound was shown, it already looked like garbage. Not just a bad game, but absolute garbage. It was already off my purchase list. MS canceling the game is just confirmation. 

Recore scored terribly, and retailed for only $40. Yet MS released it. Lococycle was terrible, yet they released it. Scalebound looked abysmal, and the project was so bad, MS canceled it. And nothing of value was lost. This isn't a situation like Propeller Arena on the Dreamcast, where the game had positive impressions and good looking media, was basically finished, and was canceled for reasons entirely unrelated to the game. This was a shit looking game put out of its misery. 

The Nintendo seal was more of a "this game/peripheral is guaranteed to work" than any sort of "hey, this game is good". Sony got third party publishers thanks to userbase and money. Discs cost less to produce than carts and Sony offered much lower licensing fees than Nintendo, something they did to establish relationships with publishers.

Yeah, some games are gems. And some games are Aliens: CM. Or Fighter Within. Not all projects are worth saving. There's no reason any of the big three should throw money away like that.

Yep, similar to Sony with Vita/VR. Nothing revolutionary about MS hiding numbers.

Remember when Sony said they didn't want EA Access on PS4 because they determined that the "value" wasn't there? Then people said "wtf are they talking about? Give me the choice of having EA Access, and I'll determine if it has value"? And, of course, the "lol #4thePlayers" comments?

Now, the shoe is on the other foot, and that "choice" is being taken away from you on the Xbox side of things because apparently MS already assessed Scalebound's "value" and nixed the game, instead of finishing it and letting you, the consumer, to determine its value.....and you're ok with it? 

I certainly ain't ok with it. Considering I've had an XBOne for some time now, and the exclusive lineup is rather thin. It certainly doesn't help to cancel AAA games. It makes the "We focus on the monthly active user base because we know those are gamers making a conscious choice to pick our content, our games, our platform, our service" excuse obsolete for not showing hardware numbers, because I'm less inclined to make the conscious choice to pick up their content, because I can't pick up their content, because it's cancelled.

Vita is a shitshow, they should officially kill it off.
PSVR would do better if they weren't pulling Nintendo tactics with painfully small shipments - eg, been out of stock since launch across asia, not a single restock since, despite bic camera, yodobashi, and yamada denki stores all having outstanding preorders unfulfilled.

Spencer is one slick MFer.

The active userbase from both PlayStation and PC are higher.
What know, Phil? Should MS keep cancelling games?

Selling ~14M-15M more than the competition, especially when 2nd is at 86M+, isn't exactly pulverizing.  If PS4 only ends up that far ahead of the XBO, which it won't, it definitely didn't pulverize it.

As a person who actually enjoyed Haze, I strongly disagree. Which really proves the main point. Just because you don't like something, doesn't mean others won't. People just need to stop making poor excuses for MS. They're obviously spending less on Xbox. It's just that simple. They didn't want to spend anymore money for developing a game that may have needed another 6 months to a year to polish.

This thread is about why Microsoft doesn't tell its hardware numbers, and that includes another side to the coin. And sure, what you said can happen - and then the owner shows up in the monthly active user base that Microsoft seems to care more about. And then they disappear again once the game that activated them isn't new anymore. Monthly active users gives a better indication of the general vitality of a console. And just to clear this up: I don't think hardware numbers aren't important because obviously they are, but I just don't think they're a very good indicator either.