WTF is that avatar? eww

What are these 8 games ?

I only see Hifi Rush, Minecraft Legends, Redfall, Starfield and Forza Horizon, and Minecraft Legends isn't really what would help Xbox's situation (it's like MLB The Show for Sony at this point).

And also Age of Empire II I guess

The reality is, the average consumer isn't generalizing games like Tchia, Returnal, Stray, Astro's Playroom, Sackboy, & Kena, into third person action adventure titles. They won't ignore upcoming games like Pacific Drive, Humanity, or Goodbye Volcano High because they aren't first party. Sony's blockbuster titles are not preventing PlayStation users from buying Gran Turismo 7 or Octopath Traveller 2.

Microsoft's slight advantage in diversity, which is highly debatable in itself, is not the advantage you think it is lol. Sony adding developers like Bungie, Haven, Firewalk and Firesprite, as well as having XDEV becoming a worldwide presence, will put that argument to rest in a few years, especially with the Activision Blizzard deal falling through. The biggest issue for Xbox going forward, in my opinion, is having very few games that can generate conversation and dominate mindshare like Sony's tentpole single player games, on top of some of their mismanaged studios, lack of major third party deals, and being the only platform skipped for a multiplatform release. 

Xbox games tend to do better on PC than PlayStation games because the latter doesn't do day and date. But as we can see, having PC ports of SpiderMan and God of War is beginning to push those IP's into the 30M+ sales territory. Even a live service game like Destiny 2 continues to break their Steam CCU peak with every new expansion. The only game from Xbox portfolio that is currently ahead, to my knowledge, is Halo Infinite, and that may not be the case in a few years, with another expansion and eventual transmedia push down the road. 

It's also a different picture then the one being painted before the current generation systems even launched lol. A lot of people thought this generation would be a lot more competitive.

And it was. Until there were nothing for a whole year.

When you have 7 years to live, you don't waste your full second life doing nothing.

They saw sales trends being better and assumed it will continue like this.

This looks like it’s from that Jeff Grubb podcast comment, which he has already run back because he was called out on it.

I’m sure MS isn’t satisfied with the state of their software lately but hard to say they aren’t happy with where Xbox is.

Xbox will go 3rd party next gen focusing on Cloud. We actually dont need Xbox hardware anymore when they can make more money without losing billions on RnD.

Sony literally entered the market and took everything that made Nintendo market leader at the time and moved them to PS

Always interesting seeing people leave out that minor detail.

The doom and gloom! Gotta throw in everything. Xbox shutting down, Phil being replaced, etc. We are on a roll. Let's keep it going! It's not like they have the best studio situation they have ever had in their history which easily rivals any top publisher while still wanting to acquire studios. Of course lets go off a rumor that Grubby boy himself has already backtracked on.

A lot of people seem frequently seem to blame Sony for MS's issues, and we have especially seen a lot of this as MS tries to justify the ABK deal. This is a copout to me. Sony's success should be irrelevant to MS's own success. If MS made really good games, then we would be seeing a lot more people interested.

But yes I agree that MS seem to be sitting on their laurels. They can certainly do moneyhatting but this is lukely more expensive for them as they would need to put those exclusives on multiple devices (PC, Xbox) not to mention Gamepass.