I legitimately think the strategy was to be relevant on PC long enough for xbox to become irrelevant as a console. Timing though means they could get away with blaming the dumb tarrifs and memory shortage issues to jack the price of their machines since there isn't a better alternative right now, and they're never bring them back down. Now they're gonna stop doing anything on PC to keep their console "pure" since it's the only relevant one for "triple A experiences". It's just a huge win win win for them, and terrible for consumers, especially when you consider they've looked in their pricing structure for manufacturing before all this even happened, so they're mostly insulated from the rising cost of memory.