Xbox did compete with PS head on. They did it last gen and beat Sony at their own game, so they can do it. However the cost of doing it doesn't fit well with a mega corp like MS. 

RROD lost $1.5b for the 360, the total loss was $3b so RROD wasn't the main issue. The PS3 lost $5b and that's without an RROD issue and paid subs to help balance it out back than. The collateral damage isn't worth it so that's why they changed Xbox the following gen with the XB1.

https://www.vg247.com/2013/01/07/xbox-360-and-ps3-losses-total-8-billion-ex-sony-employee-paints-grim-future/#:~:text=Animal%20Crossing-,Xbox%20360%20and%20PS3%20losses%20total%20%248%20billion%2C%20ex,Sony%20employee%20paints%20grim%20future&text=Xbox%20360%20and%20PS3%20have,by%20industry%20veteran%20Ben%20Cousins.&text=%E2%80%9CConsoles%20like%20Xboxes%2C%20PlayStations%20%26,a%20loss%E2%80%9D%2C%20said%20Cousins. 

How i see it, MS wanted to change their direction as the 360 loses isn't good enough for MS so Don Mattrick made the changes to the XB1, adding in DRM, Power of the Cloud and always online etc to move the console away from the 360 and towards a more digital future, and that's why we have GamePass, Full Backwards compatibility, Power of the Cloud (XCloud) Multi-platform releases (Steam) and cross gen games now. Those ideas are only getting pushed even further with the Series X. So here we are again, back to the original ideas of the XB1 however the difference is now, people are more accepting of the idea.

They needed Sony doing all major fuckups while they themselves doing very few mistakes in comparison (with only RROD being of notice, and that being mostly disregarded by the fanbase and even market, RROD just got confirmation after X360 was already well stablished).

From what I remember the department of Xbox wasn't really only Xbox so it had losses from other devices and endeavors like Surface, isn't that correct?

Sony certainly lost a fuck ton of money on PS3, it was selling for like 300 loss per console on launch and it actually never was reported to sell for a profit during it lifetime, so that was very hard to offset with SW sales (that Sony at the time had from every 10 1st party games launched 6 was losing money, 2 broke even and only 2 really made money and perhaps that didn`t even pay out for the whole cost) or even the royalties. PSN for free only added costs without revenue, with plus being very late on the gen and only having 1-2M subs.

And good that you point that Phil Spencer is bringing Xbox Series X to what Don Mattrick wanted on Xbox One, so he isn`t that good guy with a complete different mindset from Don Mattrick that was being held down by corporate right?

What ever the reasons these consoles sell for doesn't change the fact that they make and lose money. The console industry is a very in-consistence industry, one gen they can be on top of the world and the next gen they are on the bottom bleeding money. Its not a stable business practice. Something MS wants to move away from and implement a more stable system for their business practices.

Exactly, Phil is doing what Don is doing which is what MS wanted in the first place, neither are bad guys and the ideas work great on paper, Steam shows that this method works extremely well, its just very hard implementing these ideas into the console industry until now.

Nintendo have been pretty consistent though, and most 3rd parties as well. Sony have lost money only on PS3 and we don`t have any evidence that MS had any console that truly profited so not sure where you are getting this inconsistence out of.

Still we got several fans talking that Phil was against what MS did with X1 and that he didn`t had the power to fight it back.

Xbox did compete with PS head on. They did it last gen and beat Sony at their own game, so they can do it. However the cost of doing it doesn't fit well with a mega corp like MS. 

RROD lost $1.5b for the 360, the total loss was $3b so RROD wasn't the main issue. The PS3 lost $5b and that's without an RROD issue and paid subs to help balance it out back than. The collateral damage isn't worth it so that's why they changed Xbox the following gen with the XB1.

https://www.vg247.com/2013/01/07/xbox-360-and-ps3-losses-total-8-billion-ex-sony-employee-paints-grim-future/#:~:text=Animal%20Crossing-,Xbox%20360%20and%20PS3%20losses%20total%20%248%20billion%2C%20ex,Sony%20employee%20paints%20grim%20future&text=Xbox%20360%20and%20PS3%20have,by%20industry%20veteran%20Ben%20Cousins.&text=%E2%80%9CConsoles%20like%20Xboxes%2C%20PlayStations%20%26,a%20loss%E2%80%9D%2C%20said%20Cousins. 

How i see it, MS wanted to change their direction as the 360 loses isn't good enough for MS so Don Mattrick made the changes to the XB1, adding in DRM, Power of the Cloud and always online etc to move the console away from the 360 and towards a more digital future, and that's why we have GamePass, Full Backwards compatibility, Power of the Cloud (XCloud) Multi-platform releases (Steam) and cross gen games now. Those ideas are only getting pushed even further with the Series X. So here we are again, back to the original ideas of the XB1 however the difference is now, people are more accepting of the idea.

Nintendo have been pretty consistent though, and most 3rd parties as well. Sony have lost money only on PS3 and we don`t have any evidence that MS had any console that truly profited so not sure where you are getting this inconsistence out of.

Still we got several fans talking that Phil was against what MS did with X1 and that he didn`t had the power to fight it back.

Just saying Xbox 360 was profitable since 2008. Kinect gave a nice boost too. Don’t ask me how I know, I just remember. 

Stop pushing your false narrative. You keep trying to say that PC is holding consoles back but thats never been the case and sure as hell isnt the case now and it never will be. Also the was plenty of games that was shown at the MS event that look just as good as anything Sony showed so far.

But i guess you are the guy who thinks its ok to brag about CGI and In Engine footage when its from Sony so i shouldnt be too surprised by your posts, Hopefully the mods will keep an eye on your claims and are willing to ask you to prove some of the outlandish stuff you do be saying.

I mean how the hell would Gamepass be better if MS games wasnt coming to PC??. It would be worse.. And the was plenty of exclusives at the MS event that isnt coming to XBOne so how would you expect them to come to the Switch??. Maybe games like Grounded. But Fable, MS Flight Sim, Forza, state of decay 3 etc about as much chance as scaling Horizon 2 to run on the Switch.

And Halos problems doesnt come from being crossgen also, it would do you well to read up on that if your going to be trying to trow this narrative around..