it’s kind of impressive how Playstation in recent years has gone through controversy after controversy, increasing the price of PS5 consoles, increasing PS+ prices. Increasing game prices, data breaches, shutting down and killing studios that made games and IPs that defined them during the PS2 and PS3 era.
Yet Microsoft has never been able to win people back to Xbox after the 360, and if anything the gap between PlayStation and Xbox is only getting larger. There are millions of people who will never buy a pc for gaming but still want to play games. Nintendo systems are always underpowered and Xbox seemingly has nothing to compel people to switch despite spending billions on studios and having seemingly unlimited money.
The market for consoles will always exist and for normies it’s PlayStation or nothing. Microsoft really needs to get their shit together and do something to get people interested in Xbox again. If Microsoft announced that online play doesn't need a subscription anymore, they could defeat Sony overnight. Spend your money on that instead of buying studios and then doing nothing with them.