I don't believe companies ran there divisions based on there competitors success. Its all about improving and increasing there profits. The Xbox One / S are selling well and since Phil is in charge the turn around is good for his image. Sony could sell 200m consoles that wouldn't mean anything to MS as long as there improving there own brand and keeping there share holders happy.

One thing about MS and there deals with 3rd party like CoD and SFV etc is simple. They don't need them.. and ill tell you why. They have Halo a monster FPS franchise that competes head to head with CoD and BF. Sony on the other hand needs CoD because they don't have a giant FPS franchise on the same level as them. SFV wasn't even a bother to MS/Xbox because Xbox have there own fighting game in Killer Instinct. Again Sony needs SFV not Xbox because that genre is covered. That's why MS isn't chasing the deals. They want there own games to sell and I agree on MS's logic, they don't need to waste there money on deals when they have games just as good out there.

As for Japanese games, that's all in your opinion, I'm no fan of Japanese games and to me its a wasted effort getting them and you can argue the opposite. That's just our personal preference.

And your point *If someone is going to pay high dollar for Scorpio, you might as well invest in a PC instead* . No and No. There are plenty of gamers out there who don't want to build PC's and plug them in there living rooms. I have a $2.5k 2016 gaming PC in my bedroom and I have a XB1S in my living room. Convenience is important and the Scorpio is marketed towards console gamers not PC gamers. Same can be said with PS4, if you own a Gaming PC with PSNow than there's no need to buy a PS4 especially since PS4 games will be coming to PSNow. In other words if you own a gaming PC there's no point in owning any console since there all building there libraries on PC.

I normally buy my games on Steam however i picked up Snake Pass over Steam based on the fact it was Play Anywhere title. I wanted both Console and PC versions and Windows Store had the benefit. I wish Steam and Live merged services and just run off one gaming network however thats wishful thinking. Win Store has its advantages and so does Steam. I am starting to buy the Play Anywhere games now off Windows Store over Steam due to the sheer value and Xbox Achievements are just so much more thrilling to obtain over Steams. Steam will always be my 3rd party service however if MS keep pushing the Play Anywhere feature than Steam is going to have a tough fight on its hands.. For me anyway, and i am a 11 year Steam Member

Yea I can see there are better benefits if you are a PC and Xbox gamer that would make the Windows Store superior to Steam.  However, I don't see any benefits if I just play on PC and Nintendo.  So they aren't really grabbing non Xbox gamers attention in my opinion with their store.  They could just try and buyout Valve but I doubt Valve would take any offer considering Gabe wants to keep Valve privately held company.  It would be funny to see the shit storm if somehow Microsoft was able to buy Valve though.

When Phil talks about "a Netflix for games" this is all I can see...

Now that makes sense.

I would also say the same about showing games so far from completition. Its ridiculous that 2014 trailers we have still no clue when they might be ready. people loose interest after a while.

I have that capture card. 

Red Dead Redempetion will be far bigger than any exclusive in this decade.

I don't mind MS, in fact I've owned every generation of XBox and they bring some nice stuff to the table, that said I wouldn't mind them going away, simply because it would guarantee Nintendo more breathing room to operate.

Microsoft never really needed the game business, and in 15 years, they aren't really anywhere close to catching Sony anyway and they got tons of money to fall back so its not like they need the money from gaming sector anyway.

Funny thing is that last year Microsoft planned on releasing an Xbox similar ot the Apple TV and Roku.

Good for them they've decided not to release it