I can see said product becoming "completely unnecessary and worthless" only if the person buying said product, in this case an X1, would game on PC 100% of the time if given the choice between PC and console. Some people like both in different situations.

Also, X1 losing a game to PC doesn't render those X1 games unplayable. Killer Instinct is still perfectly playable on X1 despite the fact that the game is also coming to PC. Nier Automata coming to PC does not render the game unplayable on PS4... Unless of course the PS4 crashes every time it tries to run NA now that NA is also available on PC. I highly doubt that's the case.

Neir has always being available on PC. It was just another PC/PS4 game that the XB1 missed out on due to having no precense in Japan, and having low sales. 

Yes. But first of all MS is just one of the three platform holders, so there is no way that they can somehow make PC gamers happy with making them to play all the existing games on PC. And you seem to forget that MS are the worst of the big three this gen considering the quality of their games. So I doubt that PC gamers really want to play these games in the first place. Also, PC gamers literally hate Windows Store and won't use it no matter what. Just read some PC gamers forum and you'll understand what I mean.

Nice. That's what I've meant a few posts earlier. Only the guys who play all multiplatform games on PC would be dissapointed with buying XB1 at launch.

Almost every Play Anywhere MS game was always available on PC at launch. Same as with Nier:Automata. Xbox One only games are still Xbox One only games and I doubt they will be ported to PC. The only games that got ported are Killer Instinct (starting from Season 3) and Forza 6 which is more like free to play demo of Xbox One game.

No one care about Halo, Gears and Forza? Wrong 

Microsoft makes minimal IP progress with key IP's each gen. At the rate they are going the day they would confident to give Halo a rest might never come.  Halo and Gears werent even originally made by them so its food for thought on their actual abilitites. This is...unless they decide to have some heart and act like a competent game developer like their competition.

So it has been 3 months since you posted this. Are you still confident by end of this gen Sony won't be 3:1 up worldwide, barring a Sony disaster??

As of the end of October the margin between PS4 and Xbox One in the US is now 3 million units. It has continued to grow. Seems little doubt that PS4 won the Black Friday sales battle too. So that means November sales in PS4's favour, but we'll get some kind of confirmation of this next week when the NPD numbers for November are announced.

If you look at the game sales on a something like FiFa, a huge sporting franchise, at the end of October on PS4 it had sold nearly 7million and on Xbox One just over 1.5 million. Even games developers will starts looking at that disparity and wondering if it is worth their development time making sure Xbox gets the best version. If you want to compare exclusives look at both console's best driving franchises. Forza Motorsport 7, which came out 3 weeks before Gran Turismo Sport, sold 400,000 units, while Gran Turismo Sport in 2 weeks sold 1.1 million by the end of October! Forza had 5 weeks worth of sales to only hit 400,000.

With Sony announcing 70million console units sold at the beginning of December, with still the Xmas sales to go, I'm guessing Sony will shift 1-2 million worldwide this holiday season, by year end. So that should confirm that by end of 2017, we'll be in the 2.1:1 to 2.2:1 ratio of PS4 sales to Xbox One sales. Now Xbox One X has been well received by critics, but has that translated into any sales increase?

With titles like God of War, Death Stranding, Last of Us II, Spiderman, Detroit : Become Human, Days Gone (not my kind of game as it just portrays a clichéd zombie scenario, unlike Naughty Dog) all coming exclusively to PS4, will Xbox One have a chance in 2018??? Is there anything Xbox can do to turn this around? Is focusing on backwards compatibility really the right path for Xbox? I think they should focus on the future, rather than looking to the past. But I have another theory about why BC is so important to Microsoft. See my other posts on another thread about that :)

I think the complaint applies less to the fact that they’re on PC, and more to the fact that for the most part they’re just not that good. Forza is obviously a highly praised series, but look at Halo and Gears: when the games were originally being developed by third party studios, they were great; ever they began to see in-house development, they’ve gone stale. Gears 4 wasn’t the worst game I’ve played in recent years, but it was the worst Gears title to me single-player wise, and I couldn’t find anything redeeming about the multiplayer. Besides that, pretty much every Xbox/ Windows exclusive has either been forgettable shovelware, or goes multiplat.

So the question comes up: what is the reason to buy a XB1 console? XB1X has hardware, but it has a $500 entry fee, and is held back by core XB1. Plus, by the time you finally get to really see the benefits of owning one, there’ll likely be a PS5 released/ on the horizon that will be more than likely a significant bump in hardware and offer exclusive software to prove it.

I guess the problem is not that Xbox have more options to play their "exclusives", but to have just a few games with those extra options.

So, if we focus in the problem being fewer exclusives, this will end up in less people buying Xbox, and as a result, less companies developing for it, leaving the users who already have an XBOne with an expensive console and few games....

Less exclusives means more EA. I think exclusives are important to keep balance and competition.

Thank you Microsoft for not giving me any reason to buy your console.