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You'd think it's an industry they'd love to be out of, with the whole "sell at a loss and hope to make it back on games" business story.
The appeal of console hardware used to be that you could offer a tightly optimized experience with fixed hardware. The SNES outgamed a nominally higher spec 286/VGA PC because devs could use every gimmick and know it would work. But now the Xbox product matrix looks like a Taco Bell menu and console games are sprouting PC-style settings menus and inconsistent behaviour.
To preserve some brand value, I could see selling some sort of software pack or licensing system to motherboard makers-- your next PC will have an "Xbox Gold" badge on it and maybe a desktop icon or hotkey to boot into some cut-down Xbox OS.