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That is very true for the the consoles before the Xbox One and PS4. However, since the release of those 2, seems like Microsoft and Sony use an off the shelf OS + their Shell and APIs (graphics, networking, matchmaking ...etc), which makes sense, especially for Microsoft, as they already develop a very capable x86 kernel, so why not use it. Afaik, with the introduction of the Xbox one, they used the Windows 8 Core as part of their "One OS" strategy to unify all of their devices on the same platform/OS (eg. consoles, mobile, AR/RV, PCs ...etc). The current version of the Xbox OS is based on Windows 11 [0]. Ofc, it's not exactly the same as Windows, but, it's largely based on it, at least as far as we know. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xbox_system_software EDIT: Added the wikipedia link. It's the only source I could access from my work's network, but it show's the OS progression since the the first generation Xbox |