This...
In Sony's eyes, they already got the console market they want. They aren't making handhelds so that's Nintendo... But Nintendo doesn't put it's games on other systems. They definitely aren't beating MS at PC gaming. Yea fukking right. It's Microsoft and a PC. Enough said....
But what they do have.. in 4 out 5 generations.. Is the clear best home console for gamers and also highest selling. (Please lets not get into a stan war about that statement. You know what I'm talking about.) So what the hell else is left? Where else can you make money? You gotta go to PC or handhelds and sell your software. It's already being sold on yours. It's on theirs, just not day 1. So the next logical step in making money is make it day 1 and be the xbox of PC gaming. Be the second tier of PC gaming, but enough to keep you in the game. Like Xbox is now the second tier of console gaming, but they ain't about to stop putting them shyts out are they.. And just like you said, as long as they don't actually hit an XBOX or Switch, it's not hurting their console competition.
The small percentage of PC players who now won't buy a ps5, will quickly be made up if those same people are buying 5-6 sony games on their PC. They aren't dumb. They probably looked at how many people were buying the timed exclusives and realized how much they'd get dropping them full price... Or adding them to this new ps plus subscription. Copying what MS did and let you have a tier that gets the games on both, for a monthly fee. Business 101 is copying what the other guy is doing if it's working.
You are confusing Xbox Studios with Microsoft the company
Microsoft Flight Simulator has always been a PC game first, it's not an Xbox game for an example, it was on PC before Xbox was even a console, Age of Empires another example has always been a PC game, it's not an Xbox game
All Xbox got PC right now is Forza, Halo, and Hell Blade, pretty piss poor to be honest, you gotta go back to gears of war and Quantum Break for more Xbox Studio games
Sony already has more games
God of War, Death Stranding, Horizon Zero Dawn, Days Gone, Final Fantasy Remake Intergrade, Yakuza 6,
If you look at Xbox Studios page on steam, they have way more games, but none of them are AAA big titles, nobody give a damn about no sea of thieves, or State of Decay 2
Sony already crushed them, Xbox first party developed games are few and far between, that's the reality
Ghost of Tsushima and Horizon Zero dawn Sequel already confirmed for PC, and so is Gran Turismo 7, which will probably come to PC by the time the next Forza Motorsport releases which is always been a PC oriented game and it will now have a direct competitor which Gran Turismo has always been the superior game and will only be better on PC
so they already got the shyt locked down, they can drop Spider-Man on PC and crush the buildings full raytracing, 120fps, DLSS, plus mods, etc