With the news that Phil Spencer and Sarah Bond are on the way out, I had to ask the practical question first: should you buy any Xbox in 2026, and if so, which one? I start at the bottom with the Xbox One family, because used prices are wild right now. A launch Xbox One can be $60 (or even less), but the real sleeper pick is the Xbox One X around ~$125. Backwards compatibility is still one of Xbox’s strongest points, and the One X can make a lot of older OG Xbox/360/Xbox One games look way better with higher resolutions and sometimes better frame rates—plus it’s a legit 4K Blu-ray player if you’re into that. Then I get into the current-gen mess: the Series S used to be the easy budget recommendation, but after price hikes it’s harder to justify new, and the Series X is basically impossible for me to recommend at current pricing. From there, the video pivots to what “Xbox” even means now—Game Pass getting way more expensive, PC gaming being the most future-proof path, and cloud gaming being “fine” for some people (just not always for me). The big takeaway: unless you’re in a very specific edge case, you probably shouldn’t buy an Xbox in 2026. The real story is the next-gen direction—Xbox becoming more like a PC (Windows underneath, Xbox UI on top)—and whether Microsoft can actually execute on it.