99.8% of the games released on Xbox One / PS4 are multiplats anyway. It is ridiculous to assume 0.2% will have THE GREAT effect on hardware sales. It is not like the game won't be able on the Xbox One - it just will be on PC as well.

I plan to buy a new PC once Warcraft 4 will be released (a man can dream, right?). It will be super cool to have a gaming library on PC from the start, because I bought Scalebound, Halo Wars 2, Gears of War 4 and a couple more on Xbox One already.

Stop acting like playing on PC excludes playing on a console for every gamer in the world and vice versa.

- There will always be people playing on PC and hardcore only PC. MS could not sell them a console anyway. Now they sell them their software.
- There will always be people playing on console and hardcore console only. They would not care about the PC anyway.
- There are mainly PC players who play consoles every now and then. MS could sell them the Xbox One, because the games they buy for it come with a free copy for their main gaming platform as well. Not a bad selling point.
- There are mainly console players who play on PC every now and then (Like myself). MS could sell them the Xbox One, because the games they buy come with a free copy for their PCs. If they have a powerful enough PC to play them and all their achievements, save games, friends list, etc. will already be there. 

The only part of the market MS might not cater to are the "PC players that buy a console to play 3-4 games that are 100% exclusive for this one console and don't play anything else on it." According to that logic Nintendo is the console of choice for this group.

The benefits / pros for MS and the consumer / gamer easily outweight the cons here.

99.8% of the games released on Xbox One / PS4 are multiplats anyway. It is ridiculous to assume 0.2% will have THE GREAT effect on hardware sales. It is not like the game won't be able on the Xbox One - it just will be on PC as well.

I plan to buy a new PC once Warcraft 4 will be released (a man can dream, right?). It will be super cool to have a gaming library on PC from the start, because I bought Scalebound, Halo Wars 2, Gears of War 4 and a couple more on Xbox One already.

Stop acting like playing on PC excludes playing on a console for every gamer in the world and vice versa.

- There will always be people playing on PC and hardcore only PC. MS could not sell them a console anyway. Now they sell them their software.
- There will always be people playing on console and hardcore console only. They would not care about the PC anyway.
- There are mainly PC players who play consoles every now and then. MS could sell them the Xbox One, because the games they buy for it come with a free copy for their main gaming platform as well. Not a bad selling point.
- There are mainly console players who play on PC every now and then (Like myself). MS could sell them the Xbox One, because the games they buy come with a free copy for their PCs. If they have a powerful enough PC to play them and all their achievements, save games, friends list, etc. will already be there. 

The only part of the market MS might not cater to are the "PC players that buy a console to play 3-4 games that are 100% exclusive for this one console and don't play anything else on it." According to that logic Nintendo is the console of choice for this group.

The benefits / pros for MS and the consumer / gamer easily outweight the cons here.

You don't think being able to get Halo without buying a multi hundred dollar console is going to cause a decline in sales? Halo pushes xbox, and so do their exclusives. If they have no exclusives, and I can get every xbox game on pc, why would I want an xbox?

Especially when some of those same people claiming the Xbox is now dead, think the PS4 will be fine after Neo launches, even though the same logic applies. Superior hardware launching that gets all the same games. Yet where is the flood of "why buy a PS4?" threads? lol

Because you prefer consoles?

People are still not going to understand this and I dont know if it's funny or sad.

PS3 lost almost every exclusive as well.
They are all available on PSNow.

No PS3 needed! ! !

I think this is being sarcastic, but i don't really understand why. PSNow currently only offers a portion of the PS3's exclusive library (and a spec of its library at large), but if a time comes when it offers most of it (at the same quality as the native versions), and you have the means to access the service (a device it's on, and the necessary internet speeds), then no, there wouldn't be much need to own a PS3 :p That seems pretty logical to me.

The same applies to the X1. If you want to play X1 'exclusives', and own a PC capable of at least matching the experience offered on an X1 (a self-built PC in the $300 - $500 range should do fine), then you have a lot less reason to buy an X1. Sony and MS still benefit in both instances (to what degree vs buying the console depends on the circumstances), you're still investing in their closed ecosystem, but a hardware sale has still been "lost". In-fact, i'm a prime example of this. I'm a PC gamer who buys consoles specifically for exclusives, and i made posts several months ago mentioning that i was putting off buying an X1 until i was confident there was a long-term need to. As it turns out, there isn't. I'll still be an MS customer, i'll still be buying their 'exclusives' through a closed ecosystem (or at least i will once the W10 store improves), but a hardware sale has still been lost.

There is plenty of argument to be had as to how and to what degree the move will effect the X1's sales (maybe there are many like me, maybe i'm just an anomaly, maybe other related factors will actually increase the X1's sales), and how much of that will translate into investment in the W10 store, but right now stating any position as an indisputable fact (as you do in your original comment) is silly.