Xbox Series X: 10 Worries Microsoft NEED To Address

10. What's The Longterm Plan For The Console Business?

When they first entered the gaming business nearly two decades ago, Halo: Combat Evolved became Microsoft's killer app that immediately stamped them onto the scene. For a time, the company was good at creating experiences that could only be found on their platform. From 2010 to today however, a new question has been raised.

With both Halo and Xbox Game Pass arriving on PC, could the Series X be Microsoft's last console? The incentives to buy an Xbox console have slowly been trickling away in recent years. Most notably, there are now no exclusive games that require owning the console and while Microsoft is looking to move away from that focus, a key selling point for the Xbox Series X is now non-existent.

It's true that those who aren't fans of the PC platform will go down the console route for a more accessible experience, but Microsoft is still gambling with its place in that market. Will they release multiple iterations of the Series X over time to improve its power? Or will they end up bowing out of the hardware market completely and stick to providing a service? It will all come down to early adoption of the Series X.