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If Xbox is dying, Game Pass killed it, not the (admittedly stupid) naming conventions.

Everyone subscribes to Game Pass, but nobody buys many games.

That would be a good thing for Microsoft. I don't think the data supports this. A quick google search showed that there are 25 million Game Pass subscribers and 125 million people in the Xbox ecosystem. There are also still plenty of games that aren't included in Game Pass.

In this context it sounds like the war is either not lost, or, maybe, there is no war and both ecosystems are thriving in different ways.

Kind of like how Apple hasn't "lost" any "laptop war"

Good for Microsoft. Bad for developers. And a console is nothing without the games.

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