First of all the Xbox is almost tied with the PS4 in North America. The Xbox One was no flop, it will outsell the NES, 3DS, SNES, and n64 in North America. Remember how many people bought the NES which was much more popular than the SNES? I see more Xbox One's in North America than there were NES. The problem for Microsoft is they are a bit regional, with PS4 dominating in Europe, and the Switch in Japan (and btw the PS4 is the worse selling Sony home console in Japan ever, hardly a success in their home country, if Nintendo releases a Switch Pro I think the PS5 will die in Japan, and that is why Japanese games are being released for PC now.)

I do think that the PS5 will outsell the new Xbox, but "crush" is probably somewhat hyperbolic on the writer's part.

Notice how I mentioned the future, while you're talking about the present.

Didn't read the article. Did do a quick word search for the word 'pass' to see if he mentions Gamepass.

He doesn't. Its hard to see how someone who apparently isn't even aware of Microsoft's strategy and goals, letalone has a sound understanding of them, could present a relevant opinion on the future of Microsoft's gaming.

Look at 2020:

Battletoads
Cuphead
Ori and the Will of the wisps
Halo Infinate

Its not horrible.... but its not exactly great either.
Thats like 1 indie / budget sized game, 2 AA titles, and 1 AAA one.

Theres nothing "new" with those games either,
apart from a return of battletoads (which alot of people dont even want, in its current state).


Sony is gonna go out on a high note, and with backwards compatabilty being a thing for all PS4 games, on PS5...
It should act like a strong pushing force for the PS5.

If "Halo - Infinate" is considered a next gen game but is cross gen for xbox,
I'd argue the same could be true for Last of Us - Part 2, ect. 

Maybe they look and play better on PS5, thus being equal to say a new Halo game in terms of sales effects.

Hardly surprising for people to think it will go down this way.

Sonys marketing game by itself pulverizes MS.

Someone (with time) should count how many studios they each started this gen with and how many they have now. I think MS has purchased a lot more.

Like I said, I'm prepared to be wrong. Either way they will have a lot more than they did this gen in exclusives to Xbox and PC. It is to be determined whether those are mostly AAA quality games or not.

The first few months of a gen is not what I was talking about. Most of the studios MS bought won't have games ready right away to release as exclusives. I think in 2 years time they will be releasing more rapidly exclusives than Sony.

By the way, I say all this as a Nintendo fan.

The author doesn't provide sufficient evidence to justify the use of the word "crush".

Considering the facts that XB is putting their games on any hardware they can, while PS is not, and that PS currently has a much larger share of the console market, it logically follows that PS is more likely to sell more units in the next generation. So, that premise makes sense. If I was betting at even money, I'd certainly bet on Sony.

I expect Gamepass to help MS is many ways though. It limits the number of people that will jump ship (who's leaving if you already have months or years of Gamepass ahead of you). It also provides a lot of value to new players on XB. There are tons of XB1 games (maybe some will be enhanced for next gen, which would help even more) that immediately fill out a new XB gamer's library for just $10-$15 per month. That's very helpful at the start of a generation, when one has to come up with hundreds of dollars just for hardware.

Anyway, I think I agree with the general sentiment here - PS will very likely outsell XB next gen. But, XB will almost certainly perform better than they did in the current gen.