Series S sells extremely well and was less impacted by the chip shortages. MS would be stupid to drop it.
It's like saying the Switch was a mistake and Nintendo should be going console only. Which some people are crazy enough to believe.
Define extremely well. PS5 is globally sold out, so that is certainly selling extremely well, as a baseline of "extremely well".
Series S have never been globally really sold out, and have been available basically since the launch on some areas.
Series S costs 100-120 € used, with one controller on some countries. So less than 100€ without counting controller. Which means, that there isnt really user base that wants them.
So, how we define extremely well? MS doesnt release numbers I think, so it is hard to compare series s Vs series x Vs ps5.
Maybe series s sells/sold extremely well on some areas (USA, UK?), but it did not on global scale. Unless they manufactured them like 2-5x more than PS5, so they saturated market early?
Market have been saturated by series s for months/years in some areas, and series x have been available on stores for months now (here).
And we know that PS5 sells maybe 1.5-2:1 ratio vs. xbox total. So when some consoles have been easily available and some dont, saying they all sell extremely well isnt probably correct.
Unless we say that PS5 sells extremely extremely well. They arent on the same line. Or we have to use different standards, like extremely well is 5 million units for one system, and 20 million for another.
Series S isnt failure from business view point, but it is somewhat failure on strong playstation dominated areas as it sells so cheaply now as used.
I personally dislike that games are made for xbox one/series S OR ps4, if it affects the final product I have on my series x/ps5.
Devs know it better, maybe sometimes it is easy to drop resolution and this and that, but sometimes it may not be.
Like if devs would like to make series x game that looks epic, but runs on 1440p, then series S could need something like 720p to be playable.
even if porting is super easy, if they have to have quality control for 1 version vs 2 versions -> it takes more resources