They're like some crazy cult. They think if they repeat "Xbox is leading" enough times, it will somehow become true. Too bad it actually doesn't have any effect in the real world.
At least here in Europe nothing has changed, as far as I can tell. Software sales are like 80/20 or more towards Playstation according to UK numbers we get... UK is a former Xbox territory of the Xbox 360 era (the only one), so that's not very good.
Meanwhile, Gamepass missed its annual worldwide growth target, a bad omen when you're still giving away subs for $1/month... "Subscription service only grew by 37% during fiscal year, compared to target of 48%"
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/artic...-pass-growth-slows-as-microsoft-misses-target
Not saying it will fail, I don't know, but it doesn't look that good until now. I'm not sure it's a good time to celebrate a "turnaround" for Xbox.
I think some of those people are paid to do that constant cheerleading. MS bought out DF people (see the other thread), so they can definitely pay for a few astroturfers and promotional material on GAF and elsewhere.
But what MS should actually do is use this money to make a new AAA IP and impress us instead. That's the real way you can become a leader one day, like Sony and Nintendo understood years ago.
It may happen with all their new studios, we'll see.