PUBG is still in early access right?

Yes it is, not sure when the full release is planned.

Yeah I agree with that. Luckily, the Switch is a great product. So it being a monopoly(if it becomes super successful) wouldn't be such a bad thing. Still, I want to know Pickle's opinion too.

So at this point, the exclusivity period will just be for the early access and the full release will be on multiple consoles?

Seems weird to me for Microsoft to be doing this for a game without a full release I guess. I hope that Micro's exclusivity is for when the full game launches because otherwise it makes no sense to me.

It can become so successfull that Sony may decide to try again a PS portable, maybe what PSVita could have been playing the full library of PS4.

First, the tweets are from last December, so in that context, it might not have been especially controversial in the first place. Second, it seems like a fairly subjective tweet (because of "doesn't feel") in a thread not visible to his followers by default, so I don't see this as failed PR + damage control anyway. It's an accurate statement, and it's not misleading either. Of course you're free to interpret the motives otherwise.

The best bet is just to ride the PS4 train out and make PS5 a hybrid in my opinion. Which is funny, because I actually thought for the last few months that making a straight handheld would serve them well. It really depends ... with the PSP and Vita there was too many problems from Sony.

People argue that competition is required for consumerism to flourish but we see that this is not the case in vast portions of our life ... (see elastic demand)

Many goods and services in life are monopolized from one extent to another but a monopoly can in fact actually self-destruct if customers can't handle the compromises set by producers or service providers ... 

Switch being the only portable console so far is not a problem since there's no extreme impediments for it but that doesn't mean consumers can't react differently to how the change in Switch systems are sold when the said manufacturer has a monopoly. For monopolies such as the Switch to be sustainable or any monopolies for that matter the manufacturer's have to be reasonable about parameters such as pricing (very few are going to buy a Switch system at $1000 so settling for $300 is in the realm of being acceptable) or support (Nintendo still has to release games on the Switch regardless of monopoly or not) 

I wouldn't like a PS5 being hibrid... and when I said PSVita with full PS4 library I was giving an example, meaning that on launch of PS5 we also get a handheld and or a hibrid that can play PS5 games with some acceptable compromise (akin to what Switch have and PSVita was supposed to have)

MS has fallen so far wrt first party exclusives. The OG Xbox had Ninja Gaiden, Halo 1 & 2, Blinx The Time Sweeper, Crimson Skies, etc. No ScaleBound was the tipping point for me not to get an Xbox One. Even last gen was pretty good. Too bad, better luck next gen, MS.