The launch was ok'ish but to be honest no one is talking about the x anymore, and it wont become better during 2018.

Yeah but Microsoft said they don't even expect it to outsell the S.

So.. I mean, it's not supposed to light the world on fire.

Yeah but i think the numbers are much worse than MS had expected.. 2018 as a whole will be very bad for Xbox. PS4 will maybe have another peak year, abd the switch will gave decent numbers too

There...fixed that for you.

Don't hold your breath. Why should Microsoft leave the living rooms without need?

As far as we know the Xbox segment is profitable, it doesn't burn profits of other segments.

I do not say they will exit the console buisness, but i wouldnt be surprised either if they would. As far i know the xbox brand mostly wrote red numbers in its entire time

In the first years, when they had to build up brand recognition. Since the middleof the 360-years, the Xbox segment is profitable. So why should they throw it away now when Xbox is an established home console and gaming brand?

Even if they don't have the most popular home console. Their mere existence in console space helps Sony and Nintendo not to get too cocky. I don't understand why some people wish less competition for the market leaders.

Your last paragraph will be ignored by certain users.

How are they being competitive? They have been nothing but a failure this entire gen. Even at the beginning when they where never ahead, they tried implementing more shitty practices like drm and no used games and mandatory kinect. Consumers responded adequately and now they are selling like garbage in comparison to he ps4.

Aside from their shitty practices, one would think they pump out good software to try and win gamerd back, or change the view on the company but again, no they have had a lousy software output as well. They keep relying on the same 3 tired franchises, a bunch of tiny games, any new games they try that doesn't sell gangbuster they abandon instead of expanding on it, and they have cancelled multiple ips and studios. Third parties don't want to work with them cuz they try to force ideas like multiplayer on scalebound. 

The only real advancement they seem to be going for is games as services which are some of the worst games in history. And I'm so glad this year people had enough and microtransactions reached a limit which will put a big damper on games as service.

Please tell me how the xbox has been competitive this gen. and please don't say something useless like its got a 4k bluray player, or its got useless features unrelated to gaming or the stupid its got a better online experience. 

*Checks top ten sold playstation games this year*

Yeah, playstation gamers buy mostly exclusives /s

Hell, PUBG alone outsold most if not all playstation exclusive games this year on xbox alone and that game had less than a month.