Topic: General Xbox Series X|S Thread

Imagine if they announced Xbox Super S|X or something

Does anyone else feel like they’ll be largely unaffected by most of Xbox’s recent bad decisions? I use my series on a daily basis and don’t really see myself changing for any particular reason any time soon. Despite all the bad decisions and the declining lifespan and inferior quality of life, I don’t sub to game pass anyways and I don’t really buy that many games per month to begin with and they’re usually cheap or heavy I discounted games and i just play a lot of old stuff or play on my steam deck sometimes. I’m still very much comfortable with Xbox being my primary home console too. It has all the games I need on it. All the 7th gen, 8th gen, even a few 9th gen games.
I can’t say for sure what 10th gen will be like because I don’t have enough of a frame of reference to go off but we’ll see in 2026.
But even then I still see myself gaming on my Xbox for another year or two pretty regularly.
Anyone else feels the same?

@Yousef- I do feel the same way as well. I think Microsoft has a lot of stuff to improve on in the Xbox division, but I just realized they don’t really affect me at all, not trying to excuse their bad decisions that negatively impact a lot of their customers, I still dislike the price hikes they did for Game Pass and how they came out of nowhere as I was about to resub. The only sub I have is the Core sub solely for online play, and I do think that price hike made me not really care for Game Pass anymore. I think my selection of owned games (albeit kinda small since I don’t buy games a lot) is keeping me satisfied and playing the Xbox. Maybe I buy one new game and it’ll be a while that I buy another one. It’s maybe my game tastes in older, already released games that make me feel like Microsoft’s multiplatform decisions for their newer games don’t affect me that much, but I can understand a lot of criticisms people give them for how they can badly handle stuff, which they tend to do more often than not, like taking a full week to respond to the rumors that initially came out on them making ALL of their exclusives multiplatform.

@Pastellioli with me changing stuff around my spendings budget and how I use my Xbox to enjoy stuff I already have, I see myself buying games less and less. I’d love to get stuff like DBZ Sparking Zero and Sonic x Shadow, but I genuinely don’t know if my budget would allow it. We shall see.