Yes we need Xbox, having competition keeps the industry from becoming stale. Also in my opinion Xbox has the best online infrastructure in console gaming.

Sony doesn't necessarily have to be in the equation, just Playstation or Nintendo. Imagine the possibility of Amazon, Google, or another Big Tech, buying Playstation or Nintendo. Do you think that Xbox would be able to compete with Amazon+Playstation (discard Sony, think about the possibility of Amazon buying Playstation) or Google+Nintendo (same situation). Xbox is a weak brand, they would lose the cloud game war just like the console war. it is necessary to strengthen the Xbox brand so that future rivals do not have a chance to exploit the strength of PlayStation and Nintendo brand, understand?

Xbox needs become strong, and they can't do this as 3º party. imho, they need to continue in the console market and gain mindshare from user, they need generations of users that will think "Gaming = Xbox", just like many think "Gaming = Playstation and Nintendo"

No, you just read the headline.

People are failing to see the buisness side and only see this as an emotional side. Companies dont care about your feelings. I am speaking on behave of buisness sense.

You dont have to do me any favors Bazil.

3rd party Publishers are constantly making record profits via software while MS have to also dedicate losses to the billions lost on hardware.

Xbox can survive just fine as 3rd party. If PS doesnt have Xbox to compete with, they will more likely accept a 1st party GP Sub on PS increasing Xboxes audience.

Microsoft is worth 2.3 trillion dollars market cap.

They had 70 billion laying around to spend on Activision.

A few billion lost on the XBox brand here and there is not going to hurt them all that much, lets be freaking honest. For MS it's just the cost of doing business. 

So framing the question as do "we" (the general consumer) need XBox? Sure

Does MS? Well they never have, but they want to be more than just a OS company in and can afford to so ... the issue is what again? 

No, I read the whole post, but it didn't help matters, because it was kind of a mess. People are going to assume that the title is intended to help them interpret the rest of the post, because that's what titles are supposed to do. So, they will interpret the post in a way that will make it consistent with the title. Because that is how titles work. If your title is an unrelated question, then either you fucked up, or are actively trying to confuse people. 

Now, I'm gonna throw something crazy at you. If you wanted people to tell you if they think it makes sense for Microsoft to stay in the console market, maybe make the title...

"Does it make sense for Microsoft to stay in the console market?"

I know, crazy to suggest you should ask the question you actually want answered, but sometimes we have to think outside the box. 

You're baiting people, whether that's what you wanted or not. You've already seen it doesn't help keep the discussion on topic (if you define 'on topic' to mean 'responds to the topic set in the first post' instead of 'responds to the topic set in the title', which isn't necessarily the obviously correct choice either), yet you still keep the original title. If you really wanted the replies to change, you'd change the title or ask a mod to do it for you if you're unable to do it yourself, but you don't.

My post literally says, and I quote "So the question is why does MS hang around in the hardware market? Is it to keep Sony in check? Thats not their responsibility" and I get 20 posts of people saying Xbox needs to keep Sony in check. The anwser to the replies was in the original post. 

So tell me again how many people have read my post?

No, people just need to read the thread and stop replying on something that was answered in the original post.

Yes, MS need Xbox, the revenue streams they help established far outpace any loss taken on hardware. There's a reason MS juggled with the idea of offering the original Xbox for free.
If MS were to shelve Xbox as hardware, this would mean automatically writing off Live Gold revenue which by itself should far outpace those early losses on hardware.
Gamepass subscription count is also still very tied to the amount of Xbox MS is able to sell so they would have to expect a huge contraction there as well.
The revenue from games will also see a similar contraction.

The idea that the market is not big enough for 3 players is also wrong. MS 2021 gaming revenue was north of $16B and was higher than Nintendo's and about 2/3 that of Sony's. No way MS intentionally shrinks this to save pennies on the dollar by stopping Xbox production.

Or YOU need to read the forum rules: https://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=247191#content

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If your thread title ain't on topic with the thread's content, it is your fault!
Not the fault of the people who answer the thread title.

A) Thread Titles:

1. Need to accurately describe the subject content
2. Should not use deceptive hooks to lure people in
3. Should not be used to pose simple questions

We the gamers need to take back power. If SONY or Nintendo decide to jack up their prices to 90 bucks a game because there is no competition, then it's up to US the gamers to refuse to buy from them until they lower their prices. Like the OP said, it's not Microsoft's responsibility to make sure videogame prices remain fair. It's ours.