The "Console Wars" Are Over

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Nightwish224 said:

I wouldn't say "crashed out", but instead shifted strategy. Crashed out would be leaving the console space entirely, which they are not doing. Money is in software sales, not hardware. I look forward to having Xbox games even more filled with multiplat gamers online.

curl-6 said:

Xbox may have crashed out, but PS and Nintendo are still in the race. While PS5 and Switch 2 may be different devices, they still compete for gamers' finite time and money.

They've crashed out in that their console business is effectively dead; sales of the Series have ground to a halt, if there is a next Xbox, it will likely sell less than the Wii U or Vita. 

MS clearly knows this, hence them bringing their games to other platforms, hiking the price of the Series, and hardly bothering to stock it any more.