Like 90% of the comments are about Tango and the few that are about Arkane Austin are pretty much "that's shit but it does make sense"

This is one way to look at it.

You can say I’m to blame here because I never supported GamePass model and preferred the old school way of buying games physically day one, so GamePass never took off because of people like me and never reached it’s full potential.

GamePass is just like Netflix. Microsoft gambled huge on it and failed. If GamePass would have grown to 50m subscribers I think the situation would have been different, but it never did, and probably this model isn’t sustainable with current subscriber count

Going back to 2020-2021 era (Xbox Series X/S) launch period it’s crazy to think how the tables have turned. Xbox was probably in its best form since Xbox One launch back then and what we get now is Xbox being at an all time low. The state they are right now, ever since the multiplat drama is WAY, WAY WORSE than 2017 and that says a lot.
Seeing how a lot of people here and on other resources write that they are considering or already switched to a different platform, I find it hard to understand how Xbox can ever recover from this. Fanbase is taking a massive hit and Microsoft’s reputation is destroyed within community. I think it’s easier to ask who’s still staying after this, then who’s leaving

Game Pass is profitable but stopped growing way before they expected it to and they had much larger goals for it although I would say those goals were stupid, IIRC they were like 100m+ which is insane, Imo.

But because it stopped rapidly growing it doesn't matter if it's profitable when capitalism demands constant growth and so they're pivoting towards major blockbusters as their next area of focus to boost revenue/profits in their fiscal reports.

I don't think they care, they've given up trying to please that section of the community now, they're now all in on the money making, they don't care about upsetting Xbox online users or Xbox console users because they're a minority to their ultimate goals and they will likely succeed in becoming the biggest third party publisher in the industry but it's going to come at the cost of them being looked at like the next EA...But again, sadly, they won't care about their reputation as long as they are making money.

I remember seeing the 100m+ slide but it’s crazy to think that there are people in Xbox leadership who really believed that. It just shows their complete incompetence. Where they could get the 100m. Did they overestimate PC audience? Because it’s clear that with how good Steam sales are, PC gamers never would have gotten up on GamePass massively. If you are gaming on PC on a budget, you can just wait for Steam sales which happen a few times a year and buy games with 80-90% discounts and keep them to yourself instead of paying a subscription. Gamepass is just not as enticing on PC as it is on a console due to competition with Steam. On a console? Then they needed AT LEAST 360 level sales and that still wouldn’t be enough because I don’t see 100% console gamers subscribing to GamePass in a any scenario.

All I’m gonna say is that I really feel bad for giving them a chance back in 2020, thinking they mind be serious about build a strong gaming brand and a platform after Bethesda acquisition announcement and cancelling PS5 pre-order in favor of Series X

That’s true, maybe. But again, they might fail even at their ultimate goals. Because to become this huge publisher, you need to have the audience for your games. A lot of people in Xbox community are pissed off now. Selling games on PS5 and Switch might not solve the problem because you might be competing with Sony and Nintendo games there. Like, for example, HiFi Rush was released on PS5 at the same time as Rise of the Ronin did. What could have possibly gone wrong that we saw HFR discounted from 30 to 20 in just one month?

Compulsion and Doublefine are doomed 100%, if they touch Ninja Theory then Phil can f**k off and just turn in his resignation. The promises he made to those studios were all lies.