Sony copying Microsoft would go down as the dumbest gaming decision of all time. This is just not gonna happen anytime time soon. I give Sony's management shit all the time but they aren't that stupid.
My interpretation to this is that "new hardware" sales are of little significance to Sony compared to the combined active playerbase. They just won't care whether you're playing on PS4, 5, or 6 as long as you remain engaged in their platform, which makes perfect sense. I was expecting PS6 to significantly decrease in annual sales compared to PS5, and I think Sony shares that expectation.
The Playstation platform remains hardware/console based. I'm sure Sony would love to transition their existing playerbase to a Steam-like storefront on PC and somehow retain them, but they just can't do that. The last thing you wanna do as a major platform holder is to remove more entry barriers to Steam.
