>>714280812
Microsoft never cared about the home console market.
The Xbox only exists because Sony pulled a "the PS2 is a computer, actually" bullshit to get around retarded EU tax laws on "luxury goods", and it worked so well Gates thought they were serious, so not wanting to be dethroned from the home computer market like Nintendo was from the home console market, he ordered his engineers to come up with a response.
Once he realized Sony didn't actually want to mess on his turf, he wanted to can the whole thing, but the Xbox team convinced him this console business could be profitable, so it was allowed to continue normally until the Xbone fiasco, when Microsoft lost faith in the brand and it became yet another legacy product used for data harvesting and subscription collecting.
They are more than happy to let Sony or Nintendo or Valve or whatever prosper, as that means more companies hiring their "cloud solutions", which is what rakes in the dough nowadays.