That's the possibility and the goal, but it seems that actually fulfilling it is not a very high priority these days: - I have to unplug and replug my headset

That's the possibility and the goal, but it seems that actually fulfilling it is not a very high priority these days: - I have to unplug and replug my headset (an official Xbox-compatible Astro headset) from my xbox about 33% of the time to get it to recognize my microphone, and this is a common complaint among owners. - When I try to play Minecraft with a friend, about 50-60% of the time we can't connect, and one or both of us needs to completely restart our console. - A recent heavily-promoted game, "The Ascent", was actually throwing video memory errors on Xbox consoles for a lot of people: https://old.reddit.com/r/XboxSeriesXlS/comments/p4losy/the_ascent_xss_out_of_video_memory/ https://old.reddit.com/r/XboxSeriesXlS/comments/p4losy/the_a... https://external-preview.redd.it/8wPHr4M1TrBuG8qon6YO2WkrM_VQKHLXR0dsKANhLgA.jpg?auto=webp&s=b4f664704b399cf981adc56ac64e020ac6a93009 https://external-preview.redd.it/8wPHr4M1TrBuG8qon6YO2WkrM_V... - One of Xbox's flagship games, Sea of Thieves, due to creative choices in the world lore, has tied respawn time to your console horsepower. So if you have an Xbox One, you now have to compete against Xbox Series S/X players, or people who have bought an external drive, who respawn much, much faster than you. And the game pushes you strongly towards PVP most of the time. And even if you avoid that, it's still not uncommon to die due to PVE circumstances and "lose" because of the unacceptably long respawn times. So rather than just enjoying the game, you're often cursing your inferior console, or spending time thinking about upgrading its storage just to be competitive. Newer console games often make you feel pressure to buy the newest console iteration when the older iteration is nearing its end, but Sea of Thieves was released years ago on the Xbox One. Now it's a litany of performance complaints whose answers are just "get a Series X." These days consoles are earlier and earlier becoming advertisements for their newer generations.