Over the last few years, I've watched gamers try to predict the death of Xbox like radical Christians warning the world of the rapture. I've never bought into the doomsaying. Microsoft's gaming strategy was surely shifting as it locked into a subscription service strategy with Game Pass, but Xbox felt like it was still here to stay. Even when the company began flirting with porting its first-party games to competing consoles, I still just saw it as a modern strategy built to get the most money possible out of its most expensive productions or to find greater audiences for niche games like Pentiment.

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