Did Microsoft make big a mistake?

[Chazore]

Hiku said:

Time is very important to people.
I'm just saying that publishers who have shareholders are only interested in our money, and will try to release a game when it makes most financial sense to them. For some games/publishers that is Day 1 on some platforms. For others its later. No matter what day it hits the shelves, I wouldn't expect that they are trying to respect our time.

For example, I got God of War Ragnarok on release day. Do I feel that they are respecting my time more than PC players?
Not at all. They couldn't care less about my time. They are only interested in my wallet.

There's that old saying that game companies are not our friends, so I don't take these decisions personally.

That said, people can certainly feel like they want to play a game at a certain point in time. And if they're unable to, do what feels right for them.
Aside from the many problematic PC ports recently, I think where I would have an issue is if it's something like a competetive game.
It's not ideal to jump into a fighting game 1 year later when most of my opponents have 1 year worth of experience over me.

I wouldn't think they are trying to respect our time, but I expect them to, under the notion "time is money". 

Like I get what you're trying to say, but I don't agree. I don't see there being more sense in Sony's strat than MS, which is why I see day and date a important to me, and going by data, it's working, it's not a minority thing, where absolutely everyone and their dog can wait (there definitely are some impatient folks out there, and others who will simply be put off the wait and go buy something else instead). 

I know the corps are not our friends, but I can still call them out on not acting more consumer friendly.

You'd be surprised about some fighting games coming out a year or two later on PC, especially when one in recent years was an EGS exclusive, and even when it hit Steam it still didn't feature rollback, and basically suffered for both of those issues. 

The bad ports part is definitely a case of not taking proper care for sure, and even when TLOU, a lauded IP on Sony's side comes out in the state it did, it kinda puts that spent time for PC to wait not kinda worth the wait in gold (and it also destroyed the cream of the crop image of releasing polished games, but I'd argue HZD did that when it was ported to PC, and then Days Gone). Like if you are wanting to delay another group getting the chance to buy your product on their plat of choice, you'd best make up the time with quality goods instead (or don't, charge the same price, if not higher and pray it isn't broken, like a bit of a cheapskate would do, so yeah, I'm going to call out that train of thought).