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eva01beserk said:
kirby007 said:

i severly doubt this, that is a very shortsighted strategy, because what trickery would they have to do next year or the year after?

They been doing this since the x1 started underperforming and everybody was fine with it. It was so bad that fans started saying just releasing numbers was console wars. 

No one seemed to mind at all when Sony started combining sales numbers of their consoles in order to hide poor handheld sales. That's not even what is happening here with MS, it's a legitimate shift of focus away from console sales and towards user engagement. That's not to say that they don't still try to sell consoles and want to sell as many consoles as possible, but their philosophy regarding software has been for awhile, very obviously not one with an emphasis on locking people to their hardware.