Might change slightly in favour for xbox next year, I meen I know a lot of people who own both consoles and will obviously pick the ps4 version because its graphically better. With the Xbox Scorpio someone like, well me!, would have picked up the ps4 version last year (i did) but if I had to make the same choice after my scorpio arrives I would prefer the Xbox version over the PS4 version because the scorpio should deliver a better experience.

Also keep in mind this is Phil Spencers "first Xbox Console" the disaster he inherrited from his predicessor has been a constant cloud of judgement, rightfully so, xbox in 2013 was a laughing stock for anyone who loves gaming.

Surely trying to change this with a better team in the lead trying to change the opinion ps4 is superiot to xbox in every way is going to take risks and investments. If they choose to once again work with and develop with japanese publishers only good things can happen. During the PS3 and Xbox360 era when I owned both consoles they did deliver some amazing games.

Well...you're already bringing up a lot of stuff that wasn't even part of my responses.  I never implied to not acknowledging the general trend and how often that saying of console power/sales does hold up; however, we're now witnessing a time where that sentiment has been challenged by PS4.  It's like people still using Miyamoto's old "broken/delayed game" saying: I acknowledge the sentiment and generally believe that to be true, but we're in an era of Early Access titles, constant patches, etc. which have challenged the notion that a 'broken' game stays bad 'forever.'  

I too believe that to be the case.

It's FF15, the biggest Japanese third party title in years, with a lot of advertising in the West, and even Xbox exclusive advertising like at E3. It's surely the best Xbox share a Japanese game can get. 

15% is completely useless for most Japanese titles that sell nowhere near FF15 numbers.

Other games tried to be Xbox exclusive. Psycho Pass was an exclusive, but never released in the West and then had to quickly release a PS4 and PSVita versions (and the West only got these versions). Scalebound was an exclusive.... Oh, Recore was a PC/Xbox exclusive too with a lot of advertising, but even its sales were really disappointing.

Phil can do whatever he wants, it's just not worth it for anyone. The only way it's worth it for the developer is if MS fund the development (like Scalebound), but we know it can end badly and it's not worth it for MS that way, too much money thrown out the window. Too much Japanese games on PS4 (and maybe Switch) anyway, the players interested in those games won't buy an Xbox One for a couple of MS-funded games when the other consoles have 20 or 50 more games.

@Malistix: Spencer was the head of the Microsoft Studios before becoming the head of Xbox, so you can't say that he has nothing to do with the strategy around "only online" XBox games...

Sounds like he's there to beg for ports of PS4 3rd party games to come to Scorpio (cuz Phil figured the hardcore love Japanese games), not actually negotiating new exclusives. Which Japanese dev would after Scalebound? Also, new greenlit games will take 2-3 years. So he's probably shopping for quick ports that he can advertise as 4K exclusive.

Not these days. When you have two identical consoles with a library that offers 90% of the same games. Than the more attractive the powerful console looks. Why do you think the PS4 sold so well especially at launch with very little exclusives separating the two. Similar prices yet one console offered slightly better preformance.

The Xbox One was $100 more expensive than the PS4 at launch. The broader audience didn't care for the slightly better resolution when they went Christmas shopping, but they cared a lot about that $100 difference.

The PS4 Pro would sell a lot better than the PS4 Slim if people cared that much about performance compared to price. But it's not the case, and it surely never will be. The Scorpio will also sell less than the XOne Slim, the difference in sales depending on the difference in price.

The brand image, the hype around the console and the games are 3 other factors at least as important as performance, if not more (surely more). The PS4 is getting great exclusive after great exclusive lately (Hatsune Miku, Tales of, Yakuza, Kingdom Hearts, Gravity Rush, Nioh, Horizon...), when the XOne got Halo Wars 2 and that's it. This is a lot more important than performance. People thinking that the PS4 is winning by a landslide because it was a few percents more powerful should think about it again.