I think the Next Xbox should be a premium price console

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JackHandy said:

I think the next Xbox should not exist.

I bought the original Xbox and loved it. I bought Xbox 2 and loved it. I even enjoyed Xbox 3. But that was when Xbox was still interested in being a part of the traditional console industry. Back when they were interested in having exclusives and playing on their platform was unique and offered something that you could not get on a Playstation or a Switch. Now, they're just a service, imo. A lesser Steam. I don't have an interest in that. At all.

Speaking as someone who played a little bit on the OG Xbox at other people's houses, and I am recently the owner of Xbox 360 and Xbox One X in the last year or so, Xbox hardware probably should've ended with Xbox One X.

Xbox Series X is a lot more powerful than a One X, and Series S has an SSD still and some newer games despite not being a clear leap on the whole over One X. But at the end of the day, what has been the point of Series X/S? Microsoft already started Game Pass on PC and putting titles on PC before Series launched in 2020. Even the OS is the same as Xbox One, and the controllers are compatible between One and Series. The only appeal Series has over an Xbox One, PS5, or PC is the Xbox ecosystem, some backwards compatibility, and Quick Resume. That's barely enough to justify a console. To be fair, most of us expected Series to sell as well if not better than Xbox One. The initial few years of Series seemed to make that clear. But as PS5 become easier to buy and it was clear that Microsoft was fleeing from consoles more than we already knew, the writing is on the wall.

I don't think Xbox will go out in disgrace like Sega hardware because of how much money Microsoft has. And Dreamcast's quality was fine to most, it just failed to kill off PS1 and got steamrolled by PS2.