They haven't lost me yet, but they're on the verge of doing so. I've played on all four generations of Xbox, but I have a feeling the Xbox Series X will be my last. With MS opting for a quasi-third-party strategy and therefore making Xbox largely redundant, there's a very good chance that any future Xbox Studios games I'm interested in will come to PlayStation at some point, if not at launch then a few months after. I'm one of the nearly half of all Xbox players in the U.S. that also owns a PlayStation, but that era of overlap could come to an end in a few years. If I can get Halo, Gears, etc., on the PS6, then what point is there in spending hundreds of dollars on the next-gen Xbox? Maybe if those big marquee franchises are timed exclusives, like at least a year, I might consider getting the next Xbox, but if it's a simultaneous launch or the PS version isn't too far behind, then that will make me lean towards not getting the next Xbox. What would definitely get me to swear off Xbox would be them abandoning disc drives entirely. No physical, no buy.
I do plan on keeping my Series X, though, as everybody I play online or chat with online are on Xbox. I basically have a social circle on the platform. Hopefully the Series X is supported for a very long time.
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