As far as owning Xbox hardware, they initially lost me in 2013 at the launch of the XOne, but I finally picked one up when Sunset Overdrive launched with a white XOne, and no Kinect.
I stuck with it for a few years, but when Xbox announced their first party games would launch on PC simultaneously, I made the permanent switch to primarily PC gaming in 2017. I've always played on PC since childhood and had already been begun building my Steam and GOG library, but I always had an Xbox for the likes of Halo, Gears, Ninja Gaiden, and the Western RPGs that Xbox had became synonymous with. Once day and date with PC started happening, I was out. So it's been 8 years now.
I was never a Game Pass player, but I still love so many of the studios and IPs Xbox owns and I still support. Going forward, I'm most likely done with Xbox hardware. I was thinking about the ROG Ally X, but at the price point, I'm better off with my Steam Deck.
Xbox was waaaaaaay better off when they were a rounding error on Microsoft's overall spreadsheet.
You called down the thunder, now reap the whirlwind
