Liking this PS5 mockup I found.

Let me make it a little more clear.

Most avid PC gamers are not buying a console for exclusives, they just don't want consoles or maybe they live in region where consoles expensive, whatever.

There are many software sales to gain by supporting PC, MS has concluded that's more significant than potential console sales to lose. During the 6th and 7th gen I think there was genuine concern about sharing games with PC, but they must have figured out supporting PC has little if any impact on their console sales.

In fact, Sony shares many of its 3rd party exclusives with PC. Why would they do if it hurts their potential console sales? Maybe the money they save by allowing that isn't impacting their console sales enough if at all.

Ever since MS's PC support and Gamepass stuff began they've boasted about software sales improving and user activity in their games has increased. Unsurprisingly, you can reach more people by supporting PC as well. The people interested in playing MS games is not a finite number of people that actually buy Xbox consoles.

i expect ps5 to retail at $549. The good thing about these leaks is sony will want the upper hand regardless, and will do tweaks if necessary before release.

Well, like I said some reboots do work and GOW is a good example. I think the difference with GOW is that while it's an old franchise, there have been only 3 GOW games since the ps1. It's also about the story and if they can still tell something fresh and interesting, which they managed to pull off with GOW. Compare that to Gears or Halo for example and it's obvious that they are running out of ideas.

Like I said, it always feels like MS is playing catch up and they lack the creativity to really come up with their own franchises. Uncharted was a huge hit for Sony last gen and MS just wanted their own Uncharted like game with Tomb Raider. Now Sony has Horizon Zero dawn and they again try to copy it's success with a new Fable reboot. But hey, who knows. Maybe Fable can pull it off. But I just have a hard time believing it will be huge AAA title that will move a ton of consoles for MS, especially if people will directly compare it to Horizon zero dawn or Skyrim.

They can't figure out something that isn't true. A video game with no exclusives, everything shared with pc will never be a major hardware seller. It may reach a stable number of 20-40 million every gen and be very profitable. Which is totally fine but to say that such a strategy doesn't affect the hardware sales is just wrong.

Ya, later this year is going to be real interesting. Can’t wait to see what happens. 

Well, i'm an avid pc gamer and have owned most other consoles/handhelds to date (anecdotal, i know, but still...). Reasons for gaming on pc would be k/m for fps mostly, playing on the best hardware and some pc exclusives. Reasons for playing on consoles would be console exclusives and trophies.

I'm not saying MS strategy of putting their exclusives on pc is a bad one, quite the opposite. But it completely assures i will never again own an Xbox console again. Why would I?

Sony PlayStation CES 2020 Press Conference - Dates and Times
Here's when Sony's CES 2020 press conference begins. It will be livestreamed on Sony's website.
Monday, 6th January 2020
North America: 5pm PST / 6pm MST / 7pm CST / 8pm EST
UK/Ire: 1am GMT
Europe: 2am CET / 3am EET
Asia/Oceania: 10am JST / 9am AWST / 12pm AEDT

So what if GOW had a bunch of spin offs? Fact remains that people haven't lost interested in the GOW because Sony hasn't over exposed the franchise and they successfully turned the game in a fresh direction on the ps4. Generally speaking though, Sony isn't afraid to let successful franchises die and gives developers the creative freedom to try new things. I mean, do you honestly believe there would be a TLOU if MS owned Naughty Dog? I'm pretty sure we would have had 6 Uncharted games by now if that was the case. 

Nah. Flops are flops. They are the same math.

In compute scenarios Vega 7 will beat Navi.