Hope yall don't mind if I but in; Big game companies is to blame.

On PS4, there are games with free multiplayer online. It's up to developers to decide to charge you for using PSN servers. At least that is what I think.

To me, this just illustrates MS slowly giving up on Xbox, at least as a HW brand. I'm guessing sales fell off a cliff after Xmas, so they're going to be focusing on improving Windows 10 adoption. I think they'll give it one more shot next gen but if the next Xbox is a very distant 2nd, or 3rd if NX does moderately well, they're pulling out of the console market.

Yea, and thank God they aren't MS.

That's some wishful thinking right there.  I know it sucks that MS is going to lose every true exclusive list from now on, but there is absolutely no reason for Sony to switch to PC, too.  And I think you're last two sentences more accurately describe the PS4.

It's good you have it off, as MS recently changed Windows 10 to a priority update. So, if you had it on and went to bed with 7, you'd wake up to a fresh version of Windows 10, without you're say so.  And I'm getting a new laptop in a few months, which I'm specifically making sure has 7 on it.

You can disable Windows 10's automatic updates and install feature with some trickery. It's not even that hard to do.


As for Sony not deploying exclusives on PC... Well. I don't really care. Their exclusives will end up on PC whether they like it or not, eventually.
The PC has it's own exclusives anyway... And more of them, it's the platform with the largest games library ever.

You can change the update procedure with a few mouse clicks. Instead of automatic updates you get a message that updates are available.

I think Sony should consider porting games like Dreams to PC, but games that will sell millions of copies on ps4 I'm not sure about that.

Except people are upgrading to Windows 10 for free.

And this is the reason Sony will become IMO the only relevant console manufacturer for 3rd party developers for the next couple of generations, while classic console cycles will exist. MS will go in every direction their OS dictates, as they should, but this will guarantee that they will always have a far smaller install base with their home console then Sony.

Nintendo still has a good chance to attract Japanese developers if their NX gamble pays off, but they will mostly survive on the strength of their own IPs.

Sony is in this for the long run, seeing that the was majority of their profits and brand awareness will come from the PlayStation ecosystem. MS has far more flexibility to experiment, and even restart from scratch if they must, while Nintendo might actually make a decent profit from far fewer users.

Only time will tell which approach will be better.

Automatic updates have been gone, you cannot disable them entirely, but you can postpone them indefinetly.