I wonder if on some level Microsoft is offended by all the backlash about $499 or the questioning of its value for that price. Clearly they feel like they made a very powerful home console (and they did!) so these endless questions must be irritating.
We're acting like the PS4 Pro or PS4 is going to hold the Xbox One X back, but the reality is the forced compatibility with the weakest link, the Xbox One S, is going to hold all four back.
And while it is well and good they may not force performance parity, Microsoft still dictates console release date parity for games that come to Xbox One and other systems, and I think we've all heard of the many developers (usually indies) who can't support that so they skip Xbox One entirely.
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