I understand where you are coming, but I disagree.
Maybe you are too young or weren’t following the industry when it happened, but Xbox console gamers were not happy when
Microsoft announced day and date games with PC.
The strategy started with Quantum Break in 2016 as a PlayAnywhere title. I remember Phil getting some slack and having to use the old line ‘why are people upset that more people get to play games’. People were upset. It was a move that Phil had to make since he was doing his best to convince the higher ups not to sell the brand.
Xbox One was doing poorly.
Understanding the position they were in and context of the time is important. Using Windows and Xbox to address a wider audience of gaming allows for a higher potential revenue/profit as Xbox was not doing well at all. It was a move that had to be made.
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Personal story: I took an L at that time. I bought an Xbox One in January 2016 because I was a Halo fan. Halo 5 came out the previous fall and me being the Halo fan that I was, I had to play it, so I jumped in. So I had Halo *and* the fact that Quantum Break looked promising, it was an Xbox exclusive so maybe Xbox is going to start hitting its stride now.
Within weeks of my purchase I realized that Halo 5 was trash and Phil comes out and delclares that Quantum Break was coming to PC day 1 and they planned on releasing all of their titles day 1 on PC.
I was one of those people that was mad.
You mean they couldn’t tell me that QB and other titles were coming to on PC day 1. By the time they announced it, it was releasing in less than 2 months so its not like the port came out of nowhere. It could’ve saved me $399. And it wasn’t even like this was an E3 annoucement where you expect companies to shake things up, it just came out of nowhere. It was from that moment that I told myself, I am never getting an Xbox console again, I will just game on PC.]
In addition, you and many others always erroneously state that PC isnt a competing platform to consoles. Of course it is. People who say that are either being disingenuous or don’t understand the market.
If you do a Venn diagram it won’t be a complete 1 to 1, but there is a lot of overlap.
Whether on this forum, in person, or if you have seen it online, I am sure you have heard of people either buying/upgrading their PC as opposed to buying a console. Or people looking at 3rd party games exclusive maps/characters or whatever to decide what platform they are going to play a game on.
If John Smith has an Xbox, PC and PlayStation and he buys Mass Effect 4 day 1 on PC, that is a lost sale and no revenue for Xbox or Playstation. They are all competing. In the past, the markets between PC and console were very different but in 2022, PC gaming is increasingly becoming more mainstream and accessible.
console games have always been on PC since the beginning of gaming, when castlevania was on PC nobody on NES cared and even knew there was a PC version of the game
people with PCs played PC type of games, like strategy games, those originated that entire genre on PC
In the 1990s when videogames really took off, the type of games people played on PC were not on consoles yet
Final Fantasy VII the biggest playstation game was released on PC around the same time just months apart
Wolfenstein, Myst, Quake, Unreal Tournament, Star Wars Dark Forces Jedi Knight games, were the type of games people played on PC, they weren't on consoles, and didn't even get ports to consoles until much later, and weren't even popular on consoles
didn't stop consoles from exploding and creating the videogame industry
Nobody cared quantum break was on PC in real life, most people with an Xbox never even played that game
only people who complained are the Xbox Stans on the internet who are not the Xbox consumer in real life, that's why the company doesn't care about the Xbox stans and does things they don't agree with, because the Xbox User base in reality are not the stans, they are just casual gamers who don't care about any of that shyt like exclusives, or any of the stan shyt, they are on Xbox because it caters to them as a casual gamer, they use it like an entertainment hub in their house
Most PC gamers do no play console games on their PC, they play shyt like DOTA, First Person Shooters like Counter Strike, and weird ass MMOs, and other type of games normal nikkaz do not play
Street Fighter V is better on PC, the PS4 was still the main system it was played on and what its played in tournaments, when you have PC tournaments bigger than fighting game tournament, so you can't say it's because of the cost of the hardware
Esports is mainly a PC thing
Console gamers who switched to PC are the minority of the PC base, they switched to PC because they want to play console games at better graphic fidelity and performance, most PC gamers do not have the hardware to run Spider-Man at 4k 120hz or even play in 1440p with raytracing
Sony is catering to them, it's cheaper than figuring it how to put all that power into a small box, and they can make an insane amount of money without paying to make a new game
Console gamers do not like PCs, they don't understand them, they do not want to game on PC, it's intimidating to them
Parents are not going to buy their kids a gaming PC with a 3080ti in it, when a playstation cost 400 dollars, you can't be serious
it's not the same market
I asked a question and you talking about some "us" division shyt. This another Playstation vs Xbox argument? ALL of that is dumb yall not any type of gang just FANS. Acting like jackasses so unless someone has stock in any of these companies it's just 3 pages of arguing over nonsense. I know I'm getting old if this is what counts as discussing 
