What does Microsoft need to do to be relevant again?

Other than an average of 4 good AA/AAA exclusives over the next five years...

Lockhart at launch, full crossplay with PC, continue game pass momentum, and expanding in countries that don't use Latin alphabet (Cyrillic countries, Middle East, and Asia[a huge reason PS wins those markets])

Snoy fucking up always helps.

Exactly what they are doing with Series X.

*glorified steam machine

You mean crippled Steam Machine. Too many people are misinformed about what Steam Machines are. Though part of that is on Valve for allowing the media to treat them as being fully launched products before their killer features were available.

Have good exclusive games

Don't do some greedy evil bullshit.

this wont happen but lockhart and possibly fromsoft.

PS bloodborne max was approx 3 mill before it going free via psn.
MS should build a competitor, see remnant from the ashes as an example. Basically they need to fund/make games for the core to keep the buzz going while other games target both core/casuals like cod/asscreed/ect...

Literally just keep doing what it's doing. They're doing mostly everything right while Sony is shitting the bed. Maybe acquire a good developer like the dying light guys and don't fucking mess with their creative process.

Yas Forums blows Bloodborne’s impact so out of proportion it’s insane. Aside from Until Dawn, it’s one of the lowest selling PS4 exclusives.

The FromSoft exclusive is to appeal to the hardcore crowd. COD for the normies. Fortnite for the kids/teens.

Yas Forums is an absolutely horrid metric to use for the general market, but a lot of people here can't figure that out, so they just assume that what they think is what everybody thinks.

The place is retarded.

Yes, but I would say one big hit particularly something somewhat fresh for next gen could put momentum on their side. Obviously much more difficult than making great hardware.