Should I Buy An Xbox in 2025?

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Have you heard that almost everything is an Xbox? Your tablet, your phone. That old lady over the street who you don’t see as much as you used to. Now she’s an Xbox.

That’s the latest marketing slogan from the team at Microsoft Gaming. They’re putting a lot of time and money into telling you that you don’t need to buy their console to be part of the Xbox ecosystem. And so for this more than any other gaming device this year, the question of whether you should buy an Xbox in 2025 is a particularly interesting one.

Not only do you not need to buy one to play all those awesome Xbox games, including the pitch perfect Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, but it almost seems like Xbox execs would much rather you didn’t.

It makes sense, as much as certain areas of the gaming community refuse to accept it. Selling a console costs Microsoft money. Getting you to subscribe to the cloud costs them practically nothing. Selling you a game on PlayStation costs them nothing. If your big rebellion against the Microsoft empire is to purchase their games on PC or Switch, well, the team probably aren’t using your hard earned cash to mop up their tears.

Subscribing to Game Pass for a month to play a game and then cancelling isn’t exactly showing ’em who’s boss either, champ.

Yes, it all makes sense from a business perspective. And I can nod along, accepting that it’s the way of things. Microsoft will become a gaming behemoth for the decisions they’re making right now.

And I can still try desperately to justify why someone would buy an Xbox in 2025. I’ve wracked my brains and I just don’t know.

The console itself is great. The hardware and software are superb. Features like Quick Resume and automatic cloud saves for everybody automatically put it above the PS5. It’s smaller and more pleasant to look at, quiet as a whisper and its controllers are the standard for a reason. Haptics and gyro would be nice.

Their services are excellent. Game Pass is incomparable. Buying a game through the