The future is in the box that plays everything, and the next Xbox is going to have Steam access, exclusives no longer matter when customers have access to all the games moving forward.

They've crashed out in that their console business is effectively dead; sales of the Series have ground to a halt, if there is a next Xbox, it will likely sell less than the Wii U or Vita. 

MS clearly knows this, hence them bringing their games to other platforms, hiking the price of the Series, and hardly bothering to stock it any more.

There's just a shift in the future to PCs, premium dedicated devices (I'm fully expecting Home Streaming Game Hub that serves whole household from someone, possibly MS, in the future), streaming services (that are basically renting you powerful hardware, like GeForce NOW) and disruption that is coming from below, with native Steam/SteamOS on ARM handheld devices.

Nintendo vs everyone else is the last "console war".

It will happen. 

Nobody thought that Nintendo would expand to releasing their properties on mobile and to jump into Hollywood/animation (non-gaming) either.

It'll happen small at first like probably have their own store and/or release NSO on PC under its own app (which I think will be what they will do as a result of more and more Nintendo game code gets released to the public like the Super Mario 64 and the Ocarina of Time code) like what they did with the Nintendo music app. 

It'll be a fine way to combat Nintendo emulation. It will happen eventually as management/heads of Nintendo change. They've changed so much in the past decade due to the changes, imagine the changes that will happen in the next 10 years. 

Its a win win for consumers either ways.

When Nintendo inevitably publishes some PC releases (Nintendo PC or whatever like PlayStation PC) I feel like these titles and IPs are likely to be put on first

-Bayonetta games: Nintendo published the games after the first Bayonetta but does not own them

-Xenoblade games: Nintendo didn't create Xeno to begin with, had a majority stake in Monolith years after it was founded, and didn't own it wholly until December 2024

-Mother games: Hear me out. I feel like an official way to play Mother games on PC is a match made in heaven. They're quirky RPGs that shouldn't be left only on Nintendo systems, especially since the IP has been dead for so long.

Even with the continued success of Nintendo hardware, I feel like PC is eventually going to be too tantalizing to ignore. 

Now just need both Xbox and Playstation to lean heavily into the pc console space, and have Sega jump back into the console market so we can get the true ending of Nintendo vs Sega for console gaming.

GameStop made a formal declaration that console wars are over. I think it’s done, all. Microsoft has finally pivoted from targeting Sony to targeting their actual Big Tech competition: Google and Amazon.

The day Nintendo publishes to PC is the day they are no longer Nintendo, but rather a shadow of their former selves. Every game would have to be Poke'mon levels of low-quality junk, and planned DLC a month after launch.

Has been over for a while now if you ask me.