That right there is your problem. you assume that just because I prefer Sony's offerings that this is a matter of us vs them, and it's just not. This console war mentality needs to go, and the moment you said 'my side' to describe microsoft was the moment I realized that the console wars are still going, it's just a cold war. 

I'm a veteran of the SNES/Genesis era, the PS1/N64 era, the Gamecube/PS2/Xbox Era, and the Wii/Ps3/360 era...I'm done with console wars. all I'm trying to do here is explain WHY Sony is doing what they're doing, and why it's worked and how the PS4 became so successful. All Xbox One needed to do was have good games, but that's where it failed and Sony excelled. Performance wise, the PS4 and Xbone were virtually identical until the half-gen upgrades, where Xbox got a significant boost but still didn't sell as well as the Ps4 Pro. Microsoft offered a more robust backwards compatible business model as well as Game Pass - which is one of the best values in the history of gaming - but it still wasn't enough. No amount of power, backwards compatibility, or....I guess that's really all Xbox had over PS4...will overthrow a great game library. 

IT's like going to a restaurant to get a lovely steak dinner. You can go to a place that has the biggest pile of fries and the loveliest side of veggies in the world, but it's the steak people care about. If one company has a bigger, juicier, meatier steak while the other has a bigger pile of fries and some garnish, the steak is what sells the meal. the garnish and more fries are nice, but they're not what people go there for. The steak is a robust library, the fries are operating power, and the garnish is backwards compatibility in this belaboured metaphor. 

I expect nothing more than the specs. We almost 100% won't see the console itself. Just the tech stuff. In case of PS5 I'm more interested in what Sony has to offer in terms of RAM and storage. I think MS will have upperhand in CPU and GPU power because they already set a high bar for the console with what they announced. But on RAM and storage front, I think that Series X is a bit underwhelming so it would be interesting to see if Sony can offer something better here.

First month sales don't mean a thing in terms of a certain console reception. You know, Xbox One sold better in the week when One X than PS4 when PS4 Pro launched. And it was already after "disparity between games became evident" and PS4 dominated the market. First month sales are front loaded by loyal brand fans, they never reflect general public opinion.

Sure, whatever you say. Keep telling yourself that and I'm going to excuse myself back to a reality that doesn't ignore what happened just a month or two ago. 

afaik Series X can simply play all games the X1 did, not more and that excludes quite a bit of the original Xbox and 360 library, but to be fair the most popular/loved and highest quality games have by an large been added to the bc library by now

it took MS nearly a whole gen to come this far and Sony would have to deal with tons more games if they'd want to provide BC the same way

Spoiler: More or less the same.

Perhaps because basically all events are announced before they occur? So you ensure more people watching to hype.

But I don't care much about backwards compatibility if it's just PS4. I want PS1, PS2, PS3 AND PS4. As for the PS Classic, that's an incredibly slim collection of games, some of which are actually worse than the original releases. The Jak and Daxter games for example run noticeably worse than their PS3 or PS2 counterparts. As for remasters, there are certain games I would rather play on their original versions for different reasons. Also, there are still classic PS games that are yet to recieve a remaster version on a home console (Dragon Quest VIII, The Simpsons Hit and Run come to mind)... or the remaster exists, but it was just a PS3/360/Vita release (Beyond Good and Evil, Persona 4 or the first two God of War come to mind).

The backwards compatibility on Series X, while as I pointed out in the previous comment wouldn't give me the nostalgia/inmediate value that its hypothetical PS5 counterpart would, it is still a very useful tool for discovering certain Xbox games that I didn't have the chance to play before. And while, as I said I would rather have the ability to replay PS games than discover some Xbox games, if PS5 doesn't have full backwards compatibility, I would choose Series X.

All of this being said, I don't know what you are trying to do here. I made myself very clear from the beginning that I really wish PS5 is fully backwards compatible because that's something I've dreamed for quite some time. I don't get why are you pushing me this far to explain my needs as a gamer. Are you just extremely curious or are you just trying to make someone feel stupid for liking whathever he wants?

Either way, I believe that's enough for this topic. Have a nice day.

And does E3, directs, etc just happen without any announcement of date before? Didn't know.

What??? The xbox one didnt even have BC anytime near launch and even then it was weaker and more expensive. You should make a realistic comparison instead: ps4 and x1 releasing for $399 with no drm BS from ms. But x1 has BC and ps4 doesnt. Suddenly the x1 looks a lot better.

And Sony needs to do the same as MS because? MS have made like 4 or 5 release of info this year alone, and I remember they announcing they would give information on the award last year. Also Sony announced they are revealing what was going to be revealed in the GDC, so it is equivalent to announcing the date of an event like the do with State of Play.

And in any case what is the point you are trying to make?