They need to get some vision behind Xbox again. Xbox OG was a totally unique beast with strong multiplatforms AND weird eclectic exclusives (in part because of FROMSOFT and inheriting most of the Dreamcast's innovating spirit and successor games). Halo was obviously a sales beast that ripped to play but it was only part of a vision by people who loved the form and wanted to expand it.
Hardware shit aside the 360 was also a total beast with a weird and cool exclusive for every Gears Of War taking a more direct approach to mainstream appeal. XBLA had some of the coolest exclusives ever! Again, it felt like the product of people who wanted to nurture the form.
I feel like all those people left for the One - an ugly chunk of set top box that sucked technically (a brand first!) had no weird cult games of note (I can play a successor to Panzer Dragoon with a Kinnect, I guess?). Titanfall was a proof of concept, they lost the chance to get the definitive version of the latest Bungie shooter, and while I'd like more Halo, 343's version is humourless and inelegant fan fiction.
The only reason I want one is to play 360 games I own digitally with better frame rate, lol. All the weird cult games seem to come to PS4, PS4 has the FGC pretty much wrapped up, PS4 got the best multiplats for most of it's life and therefore has the strongest online community.
The 4th generation Xbox can't just be a collection of high level specs reeled off by a stiff with a suit and too many teeth every E3. It has to be the most powerful hardware married with a vision and eccentricity that unites casuals, hardcore and cult gamers under one banner again. J Allard's cyberpunk Michael Stipe act and the support of Jeff Minter was always so important for me - it told me things would never be boring or excessively corporate. Xbox has felt soulless since Kinnect.
I feel like now Japan's recovering as a development area Nintendo and Sony will keep crushing it - unless they totally fuck up, which has happened before. But they have to fuck up in sync.
TBH since Microsoft almost ended Platinum I've considered them toxic and I just want them to move on - which sucks, because my OG and my 360 were magical as hell. I've started planning to mod my OG so I can remember the old times.