Xbox Might Be Cooked?

Microsoft just slapped a 50% price hike on Game Pass while boasting record-high gaming revenue, and gamers are not happy. Yet even as console sales slide and studios get the axe, Xbox claims profitability and teases shiny new hardware—while quietly betting big on Windows and mobile.

It’s a classic shift-to-services play: Game Pass is churning more cash than ever (sorry, “enshittification”), but is the value for players actually shrinking? We dig into the console decline, the service pivot, and ask if Xbox can still rise like a phoenix—delivering great games instead of just juicing quarterly numbers.

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