No surprise here. Sony Will report drop to.
Its time for the switch to Shine, at least for another year.

True.... sony will probably anounce PS4 dropped like 20-25%, soon. 
Then at some point (probably this year) do a perm price cut, and see sales go back up.

Xbox hardware dropping ~50% when next gen is still 1,5year away..... sales are gonna slow to a crawl before then.

Yeah but at this point is getting silly, the original xbox lost a ton of money so they will go out of the console business, early years of Xbox 360 RROD made them lose a lot of money they will cancel the X360 soon it is the next dreamcast, end of X360 sure they made some money with Kinect but lost the hardcore gamers next xbox is the last one, Early xbox one years, it is selling horrible and the WiiU is going to outsell it....yup their will be no new console.  At some point you probably be right but it seems the money them make is not from the console but with GOLD/Gamepass and the 15 studios makes the future interesting atleast especially if more studios will join.

Not surprising but further proof next gen can't come sooner for Xbox. And if that doesn't work out, they may become the next Sega. Can you imagine Halo games releasing on PlayStation?

the brand at this point is useless

I think Next gen Will be the last one, at least the way we are used to. The industry is moving to stream, even if we dont like it.
Microsoft knows that probably better than anyone else in the business and they are landing the foundations to dominate the streaming market.

The Xbox One is not the lowest selling console of the generation...

Yeah, that's my thought too, I can see this being "normal" if Scarlet was releasing this holiday season, but it's still a year and a half away.

That's a long arse time when weekly sales have already dropped to 40k. They won't so much be limping over the finish line as crawling over it.

Still, as transitions like Wii U to Switch, Gamecube to Wii, and Xbox to 360 prove, it's entirely possible to go from a failed console to a successful one. That said, it's going to be an uphill battle convincing gamers that Scarlet is a good investment. I wish them luck; competition is good for the consumer.

Really I highly doubt even MS will support it two years from the Scarlet's launch.  Maybe 6 months to a year.  I'm sure they'll put xCloud on it and count that as support.

The PS3 was too expensive, due to custom chips, to make to drop the price much more.  The PS4 doesn't have that problem.  Right now, Sony is probably just making as much profit as they can on the PS4 since its sales are still alright, offsetting PS5's R&D.  I have no doubt they will be cut this holiday season permanently.  The only question is by how much.  They could do the full $100 drop to $199.  However, I think they will only drop to $249, since there is still demand at that price and continue with their $199 BF week deals.  $199 will most likely come next year with the launch of the PS5.

2019 would have been a better year for XB2 imo