It is a nice UHD Blu-ray player, though. I recommend it at work to customers over the stand-alone players.

Do you follow any of the gaming sites Facebook pages? Because even now it's a thing. No one cared about eating crow because they knew they'd just switch the argument down the road. Now we're arguing about exclusivity and not power. And it's cool if MS wasn't to make X1 and PC one and the same. But don't say we should be praising a console for its lack of exclusives. What will they show at conferences if the competition will be showing the same thing as well as more?

Those same sites are also full of people who think Xbox has more exclusives and that the Switch is more powerful than a PS4. If we're going to lower the bar that far, you need to let me know first so I can dip out of the conversation.

Something a very small percentage of people use esp these days with video streaming services and higher speed internet. Also for a $140 you can get a UHD player off Amazon if just buying one to play movies. Even a Samsung one for 70 bucks.

Cheapest new ones on the market are in the $150~ range. If you found one for $70, odds are it's either used, broken, a random no-name brand, or is actually a normal Blu-ray player with a "4K upscaler".

Still, most people agree with me that if they're gonna get a 4K player, it may as well also be a game console.

PC has access to majority of Anime and JRPG games so really same can be said for PS4.

Are you going to forget that Halo 1, 2, Gears and Fable all crossed to PC back on the OG Xbox?

Xbox has always keep PC close. From there very first console. If anything MS are going back to there roots.

That's what I've been saying all along. It's really sad that the most consumer friendly console maker is the one that sells the worst.
That's what you get if you condition console players that shitty consumer hating behavior is not only acceptable but encouraged.

But how many people would these be? Non-exclusivity didn't stop some of the biggest sellers on consoles being third party titles, not exclusives. This was particularly true last generation:

http://www.vgchartz.com/article/261769/top-10-best-selling-playstation-3-games/

http://www.vgchartz.com/article/261894/top-10-best-selling-xbox-360-games/

In addition, for people who don't care for PC gaming, an otherwise-exclusive X1 title also available on PC should make no difference to them that it is also available on PC. GTA 5 having record sales doesn't seem to be slowed down by the game not being an exclusive.

Without true exclusives, the entire purpose of a platform to exist is severely diminished. You ask: "Does a game being available on more than one platform not make it more readily available to people thus benefiting the consumer?" How about people who bought the XBO in good faith thinking they NEEDED to do so in order to play the games they rightfully assumed would be exclusive? To those same people who bought 2 or 3 years of XBL subs? Is that pro consumer? To those that have already bought into a clearly defined ideology, only to have it taken away on a whim? I see the course of action being taken by MS being met with indignation even among our small numbers.

One of the main problems here is that MS Play Anywhere program doesn't work like it should be. You still have a lot of differences between XB1 and PC versions of games. The majority of PA games doesn't have cross-play or cross-save. So, what's good in splitting the userbase between two platforms. When the program was announced it sounded good in theory but MS seems to have failed to achieve what they were expected to. Also, they release some games on Steam and this versions doesn't use XBL for online play at all splitting user base even further. Now between three different platforms. I think that people doesn't praise them because it all looks like MS is just being desperate for a quick buck instead of thinking about the future of their gaming platform.

Also, I disagree with your statement that MS selling Xbox One X at loss is a proof that they are not leaving hardware business. First of all, they aren't selling it at a loss. And even if they do, it doesn't seem that this loss is huge according to Phil Spencer's interview. But MS shifting their focus from Xbox to Win10 I think is a good proof that they exactly want to leave console market. Let's look at some of their E3 announcements: when they talked about VR they mentioned that PC is the right choice for it. So, they are more interested in bringing VR to PC than Xbox. They have 1 PC exclusive: AoE HD and 0 for Xbox. And it is understandable from business point of view. Why would you waste your money on R&D to make dedicated gaming hardware if you have a lot of partners like HP, Asus, Acer, etc. that will build this hardware for you and even pay you for installing your OS on it. The main reason why they still release Xbox One X is that Win10 crowd is not nearly as big as Xbox right now. They can't risk right now and they need something to keep them in the gaming business while this shift towards PC is in progress. I can bet that when Windows Store userbase will surpass the Xbox userbase, MS will leave console market. That's a given.