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Their new appointment of leader for their Xbox group suggests that they intend to wind down that business unit in time. The founder of the Xbox team has commented that he believes it’s the beginning of the end for Xbox, for the exact reasons of this thread.

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Which is odd because the major reason Xbox is petering out is because it's been completely mismanaged. Sony and Nintendo are still doing just fine. Nintendo even had a dodgy console that no one bought within relatively recent memory. Xbox messed up with the One and then have just failed to get back on track. It's not like the industry is dying.

Sony’s best selling console is still the PS2. They make more profit per console these days but the market doesn’t seem all that healthy.

I think Microsoft will just allow strong DRM to prevent cheats/piracy in PCs instead of dedicated xboxes.

It's skewed by the PS2 being one of the cheapest DVD players available at the time, which is no longer needed now.

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