It's a failure for me, last gen I had (and still have) my Xbox 360 and around 150+ retail games for the system, after the announcement of the X1 I bought a PS3 the same week and followed that with a PS4. There was a point where I could have gotten an Xbox1 for 150 with some games... I didn't, considering I mostly collect games that was the point where I knew myself that the system had failed for me.
But in terms of overall failure, I think you could say that the system itself has done "okay" but it is a failure in the same way the 80 million sales of the PS3 are a failure compared to the runaway success of the 150m selling ps2 before it, the X1 reveal absolutely destroyed a huge amount of work that the X360 had done for MS in terms of getting them a win with gamers even though they had pushed things like paid online and adverts in the console interface, the X360 was popular in spite of those things, and they pushed too far with anti consumerism and the bubble burst in their face.
Could I suggest a poll to this thread would be cool :)
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