"Power Your Hate"
Sony is irrelevant and always has been.
Xbox just never had the full backing of Microsoft from Nadella but Phil changed all that.
Sony could not go into a bidding war with Microsoft to get Bethesda. Like Phil said, they are not our competition. Microsoft started last gen with like 8 studios and now look at how they ended the gen. Xbox generating more revenue in history, 23 studios, Game Pass Digital Gaming Service and X Cloud Streaming. Xbox is now the largest gaming company in the world. Microsoft killed it last gen and still have not really gotten serious yet, alot more is coming. Sony did good too, they sold PS4s.
This is what real power looks like.
343 can't even put out a good compilation without fucking that up. Their Halo titles have been underbaked as fuck, showing a clear misunderstanding of Halo. Instead pushing it more into a niche series that only the hardcore care about.
Ninja Theory is a garbage pretentious developer that literally has never made a good game, despite tons of resources thrown thier way. Thier first MS published game was something that any idiot who follows games knew would bomb. Who wanted Iron Phoenix 2? No one.
Undead Labs had so much promise, but instead shitted out a sequel to thier promising game. Not at all the Uncharted 1 to Uncharted 2 jump, instead it was a jump like Neo in the first Matrix movie where he fell flat on his face.
Playground games. Maye Fable will be good. Who knows. Can't be worse then the other games, but I guess MS new thing is to just reboot old ips they have.
Rare-Everwild looks like another bland personality-less whatever. A game that pretends to be more simply because it dosen't seem to be those obnoxious shooty bang bang games. I'll care if it turns out to be anything more then some lame attempt to be thoughtful. Sorry, indies already have the pretentious with artstyle genre tied up Rare. Make things people actually care about.
The Imitative make Perfect Dark is completely unknown and can't shit on that. If they make a cool single player game, it will be like the first non Gears or Halo decent single player game from MS in years.
Obsidian-Yeah probably the most promising aspect about MS studio purchases. A studio that needed good support has it. Lets see if anything happens.
Compulsion games-Yeah I don't care about the studio that brought you Contrast and We Happy Few.
So pretty much before you bring in Bethesda, MS studio purchases really aren't that strong and seem like it will take them a long time to build up to what Sony or Nintendo has.
But sure add in Bethesda. I've never been huge fan, but it would be pretty dumb to say they aren't worthwhile.
But I mean the last Doom and Wolfenstien games were pretty meh. Not even talking about Young Blood which was a misguided mess of a cheap game. Evil Within has never lit the world up and Ghostwire is coming to PS5. As is Death Loop, yet Arkane themselves has sufferd some talent loss. Elder Scrolls and that Star game are years away. Hell wouldn't surprise me if Elder Scrolls is a next xbox title after everything plays out.
So really, I laugh at your idea of "power".