Xbox One; was it a successful console?

[Alby_da_Wolf]

It didn't succeed compared to XB360 in sales numbers, but for wrong MS strategies, not due to flaws.
OTOH it was successful on the path of making consoles with a x86 PC architecture, making devs lives easier and PC-console multiplats easier to make too. PS4 did it too, but while Sony can do it just to make devs and gamers happier, MS has more interest in keeping Windows PC gaming relevant and with its unified gaming environment and premium services is trying to earn money directly from the PC part too instead of just reaping the indirect benefits of helping keeping Windows relevant, powerful and lucrative. On this thing it looks like XS and Game Pass refined MS strategies a lot and will be more successful, but it was XBOne that paved their way.
Finally, XB360 flaws cost MS a lot of money and eventually losing its head start and ending third the gen by a whisker, XBOne flaws cost less, and after a very bad start due to MS marketing disasters, it did a good job recovering through its life and selling a decent amount of units, ending second, although with a far larger gap than XB360 from second and first, but saving the whole XB family and gaming environment from becoming irrelevant.