What's Xbox SAD?

HW sales are what they are for lots of reasons. I'm not implying these games are not a reason, but if they were nearly as big a reason people make them out to be, they'd be showing up on sales charts. But they don't, they're a very niche situation in a vast majority of cases. What you're left with is PS4 being what 360 was last gen, the de facto standard dudebro console plus getting lots of third party marketing deals plus Sony is simply stronger in more territories. It would outsell the Xbone in Europe and Japan even without Kinjetsumoto Dragon Z launching console exclusive.

Their 360 output outside of Kinect games last gen had already started to slow down well before they began marketing next gen. But we still got Horizon 2, Titanfall, Motocross Madness, Battleblock Theater, Skulls of the Shogun, Lococycle, Fantasia, Super Time Force, Screamride, Ascend, State of Decay, among others I am forgetting the year the Xbone launched and 2014. Far from abandoning anyone. I believe Fable Anniversary was 2014 as well.

The bolded part is sheer nonsense. Why would a Halo game on Xbone not be considered great Xbone support? And you speak as if that's the last Xbone game MS will make lol. They showed plenty of good Xbone games at E3, give the conference a watch some time, ignorance is no excuse to speak incorrectly on things.

The thread is literally about Xbone hardware. When I say exit the market, I'm talking hardware. Either way it's irrelevant and you're just flinging shit at the wall every year hoping it eventually sticks.

The all digital Xbox. Some podcast coined the term Xbox SAD for Xbox One S All-Digital. EZA? I forget.

Ha! That's a good name for a diskless console that costs more than the standard edition!

Yeah at this point I think they'd be better off taking a leaf from Nintendo's book in how they handled their comeback from Wii U to Switch. Sometimes it's better off not to spend too much resources bailing out a sinking ship; you weather the storm for a bit, regroup, then come out swinging with the next system.

Nintendo for instance could have slashed the Wii U's price to $200 in 2016 or made more of their early Switch titles cross-gen, but they chose not to, focusing instead on the future.

If you look at the HW sales between XB, PS and Switch, the notable issue for XB is North America sales. In the past, XB was on par or better than PS in NA, but now it is trailing much behind Switch and PS, which suggests that XB audience is moving to PC and Switch.  Europe has been traditionally PS territory, amd continues to be so, while Nintendo is dominating Japan (handheld market). 

If XB sales continues to decline like this, I wonder if Scarlett can resurrect the console business. After all the problem is not the HW, since XB1X is the most powerful console already.

It's too simplistic to say that price is the most crucial factor for consumers here. It is for some of them, namely those who can't really tell one machine from another but simply need to buy something for their kids to play on, for as cheap as possible.
I'd say perception is key here. What does the brand tell you? What is the word on the "streets", namely the internet and word of mouth. Marketing, the launch, which can make or break consoles as we know. Brand is very important, in some parts of Europe "playstation" is a general term for a gaming console for instance. For those in the know, power is also part of of the perception and expectations of how the coming games will perform. It may be demonstrable that the cheaper console seems to be the winner usually, but that's more incidental than a direct correlation.

Well, if the history of the console business tells us anything, it's that comebacks are possible. Nintendo has twice bounced back from a failed console to a wildly successful one.

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Well both times Nintendo did so, they offered something the competition did not. Motion control with the switch and hybrid switch. Not to mention the huge nintendo library.

Scarlet on the other hand sounds like a carbon copy of the ps5 but without the ps library. If both ps5 and scarlet end up to similar again like ps4 and x1, then people will default to PlayStation cuz they have a prooven track record and MS is known for abandoning consoles mid gen.

Unfortunately still no HW numbers, and even worse very big dip on the revenue. But well next gen is coming so it isn't unexpected.