On December 26, Microsoft confirmed that its Game Pass cloud streaming platform wasn’t working as expected. Over 24 hours later, many players are still complaining about long waits and disconnects. This outage comes at a time when Microsoft has been pushing a new marketing slogan that claims everything connected to the internet is an Xbox.

This was the first year of a new Xbox era. The company now fully owns and operates both Activision/Blizzard/King and Bethesda, alongside the other studios its bought up over the last few years. And thanks to Activision and Bethesda, Microsoft had a solid video game release schedule in 2024.