I think you're right. I've been suspicious for awhile that Xbox may be self-sabotaging supply in order to give Sony a hugely better Holiday season and 1st quarter 2023 than Xbox, just so that Xbox looks like a sad wounded puppy in the eyes of the regulators, in order to help get this acquisition through. If Xbox looks like it's getting curbstomped by Sony in the 2 most recent quarters, the regulators might see it and be more inclined to think that Xbox needs ABK in order to compete. What if they've just been storing up tons of Diablo 4 and Starfield Series X bundles, instead of selling those Series X chips in Q1 and Q2, just to make Xbox look wounded, then they unleash those units as soon as the acquisition is closed, in June for Diablo bundle and September for the Starfield bundle? And if they announce a Series S price cut down to $250 on the June Xbox showcase too, even better, it needs a sales boost too. Would be great to have a huge Q3 and Q4 after how poor the first two quarters of the year are looking to be. 

I have these suspicions as well lol. I've had no problem seeing the Diablo IV Series X bundle available for pre-order, which is crazy to think considering how difficult it is to find a regular Series X. And if the deal closes before June, that'll be a huge marketing bump to get that bundle out. 

Gamepass doing well! Which is why I always say, you can never stop acquiring studios. Need to keep feeding that beast. Hopefully they aren't done.

Game Pass carrying.

I'm fairly happy with these results.

Need to fix Hardware obviously but Content & Services is strong.

Now if only Game Pass had consistent AAA releases

To think the top 4 highest grossing revenue quarters in Xbox's history have been from the past few years lol. Including topping the entire 360 generation.

Xbox is doomed indeed!

Game Pass increasing without anything notable releasing on it…. Just wait till they drop the Acti/Blizz catalogue :P

Wait...so Xbox isn't doomed?

GP growth in subscriber numbers or because they stopped the 1$ deal ?