If the the sales on PC are "negligible" then what is all this "brand damage" people are talking about? It does not appear that PlayStation owners are jumping to PC en masse so the brand damage claim doesn't hold much water--at least for now. They might be worried about people skipping PS6 if supplies are stressed for a long period.
As for PC sales declining, it should be noted that Sony did a poor job retaining PC customers with all the problems users have experienced. Keep screwing up and people are going to avoid buying your product. A good portion of that is on them.
Related to that, I think one issue in particular is a big part of this decision. Sony was probably counting on bringing people into their ecosystem with mandatory PSN accounts on PC. That absolutely did NOT play out the way they wanted. Terrible planning on their part and they have no one blame but themselves but my guess is that was one of the factors that made them go the PC path in the first place. Corporations do love showing off registered user numbers to investors.
Personally, I don't really care. There might be Sony games that I want to play but new releases take so long and there are so few of them now that I just can't imagine buying a console when PC has so much to choose from.
