@zeggelaar: there's a gap of 50 million sales between Xbox one and PS4 and that's mostly because of its exclusives.
Nintendo consoles sell because of its exclusives.
Consoles need exclusives to have an identity of their own.
When you think Nintendo, you think of Mario, Zelda and Pokemon.
When you think Sony, you think of uncharted, the last of us and God of War.
When you think Xbox, you used to think Halo and Gears of War.
This is what exclusives are about.
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/pc-games-sales-in-2017-are-almost-as-big-all-console-sales-combined/
That is a massive disparity, imagine even a 1/4 of those players are PC only, Sony is literally losing money to the PC only crowd, they can forgo the X1X if they really want because Microsoft made money off the sales of Windows and that is it, that way Microsoft gets no cut from their Xbox. They lose a cut to Steam or Blizzard or whatever platform they chose to sell on, hell I'm sure Sony could make their own platform on PC.
This is a pure numbers game and has nothing to do with brand identity. Sony is losing money.
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