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https://screenrant.com/next-gen-xbox-console-confirmed-2026-release-window/
So here's the thing. They can say whatever they want. Stores are still pulling Xbox hardware from sale. That is the canary in the coal mine. Microsoft isn't coming back to the market after that. Especially not with an overpriced console that has no exclusives.
Their current trajectory, is almost identical to that of Sega'a post Dreamcast.
Sega did the same with Dreamcasts still on the shelf, had them discounted and removed from sale in stores while announcing they were still working on more hardware.
One year later: just kidding. SEGA now only make software / Sonic games.
Microsoft is absolutley just about to do the same with Halo and Xbox.
Here's an article from Sega in 2001 about the death of the Dreamcast being overrated because of Segas future hardware plans (that later never materialized).
It reads almost exactly like the one you just posted from Microsoft.
That's corpo PR speak. That doesn't say anything
okay go ahead and ignore the company’s official statement answering your question then
They say they're working on new hardware every time they make their software worse so people think xbox is still worth it. I wouldn't be surprised if the statement is just talking about a prebuilt windows PC that boots straight into game mode and they aren't actually working on a proper console.