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eva01beserk said:

No. Evertything MS seems to be doing tells me that their market share will drop simce theres less and less need to own an Xbox.

What it does have going for it that MS has no control over it is the insane price hike PC got since only a couple of years. I do see a hell of a lot of pc players migrate to consoles this gen and xbox will benefit the most from this.

I would jave said they would not even pads the x1. But after this I see them at least matching it. Still not gona get close to the 360 since outside the US the xbox brand is dead.

The console buying audience and the PC audience are at this point fundamentally separate, I think. “Just build a PC if you want to play MS first party” is not useful advice to someone that’s a traditional console experience, of which there are still tens of millions. And I think more importantly, the performance per dollar gap between a series X and a gaming PC is outlandish right now, and might not ever get better. Legitimately, the PC parts market might be permanently broken. 

I could easily see it being 2024 and the Series X is still vastly outpacing an equivalently spec’d PC in performance per dollar. That, plus a pro refresh, plus aggressive series S price cuts, I think will move a lot of consoles for Microsoft. I think we could actually see a renaissance in the western console market if the PC market remains this bad