Players are comparing the situation to the sunset of the Dreamcast era.
One of the largest retail chains selling games, consoles, and accessories in Australia and New Zealand, EB Games, has removed the Xbox logo from its official website and has also begun removing Microsoft consoles from store displays.
People on Reddit fear that Microsoft has decided to exit the console business and believe that the situation is beginning to resemble the sunset of the Sega Dreamcast era.
The sunset of the Dreamcast era looked exactly the same: all sorts of rumors, multiplatform releases, empty warehouses, and a lack of advertising. The only difference now is that Microsoft has partnered with AMD to produce a chip for the next console, the specifications of which have supposedly leaked online.