It's been a challenging year for Xbox. On the positive, we've seen some of the console's best first-party games yet, with Indiana Jones and the Great Circle making a late-in-the-year dash for game of the year, and a return to form with Call of Duty: Black Ops 6, the jewel in Activision-Blizzard's crown.
However, those highlights appear in a sea of painful industry news. There have been multiple rounds of layoffs, with thousands of Xbox staff losing their jobs, several studio closures, including the team behind one of the best first-party games of this generation, and price rises, too.
