A lot of us xbox owners seen this coming. There’s no game news coming out from Microsoft other than “hey we bought another game company, look at their catalog!”. Our 1st party titles take long in between iterations and at this point I say only Forza is a solid game but racing games jsut don’t generate hype as a system seller but geared towards the car crowds. Halo has fucked up royally. The master chief collection was all outsourced and came out a clusterfuck. It’s taken years to fix and outside of the loyal halo players it’s also not a system seller anymore. The latest Halo tried too hard to be a call of duty but why? It’s changed course a tiny bit but again only the loyal player base keep that going. The current status of Microsoft as a games company is mild to blah. And we believe it’s by design. Simply to add sub-par game titles to Gamepass and eventually go the Sega route and be an online game portal available to all. However the epic store and gog and steam are already available. So how to differentiate Gamepass? Buy up companies and keep their IP, if the acquired company keeps doing good then keep it going, if it fails (due to Microsoft “hands-off approach”) then close the studio irregardless of past performance and keep the IP and offer MS owned IP solely in its future Gamepass iteration. Just my thoughts as an xbox owner, longtime game fan