The article mentions the significant impact of the failure of the XBox One but then goes on to lay the ultimate blame on smartphones in the last sentence (and h

The article mentions the significant impact of the failure of the XBox One but then goes on to lay the ultimate blame on smartphones in the last sentence (and headline). I don't agree. Playstation and Nintendo have both successfully navigated the smartphone-centric competitive landscape with different strategies. The XBox business never recovered from the XBox One - which was a huge fail on almost every dimension. And that was the worst generation to fail on - because PS4 didn't fail. While PS4 wasn't perfect, it didn't have the critical issues PS3 did (high cost, extremely difficult to program, reliability). It was also the generation when the console business stabilized and platform ecosystems (subscriptions, online-only games, backward-compatibility) greatly increased user loyalty and platform lock-in. While the XBox Series X generation returned to hardware, cost and feature parity (or close enough), Playstation had already pulled away enough and thanks to social stickiness (friends buy what other friends have), any lead compounds. Also - while it's a more minor issue - I have to mention... after screwing up the "XBox One" name (yeah, calling the third generation "One" won't confuse anyone), they screwed up again naming the next generation (WTF does "XBox Series X" even mean? What other "Series" are there?).