So you are basically saying that MS will expand the market. Care to give a reason? As nothing suggest at the moment that will happen. Things could change after their first party line up is anounced. But as it stands it looks like MS is exiting the console space for cloud services. 

Yes, they had a fantastic hand that involved defective consoles appearing to eliminate any advantage they had and a console that ran a longer life cycle and rode on the back of the highest sales margin of the previous generation.

MS doing what it did was pretty much proof that if MS was even a bit serious, there wouldn't be a war and just carnage. They could literally money bomb their way to victory, but investors would hate the CEO for it.

Nothing remotely implies this. 

Seriously, the message is clear: PS5 will lose market share to XBS. 

What message is that? Care to elaborate? 

I was not referring to Jason Schreier though as he wasn't the first to come up with HZD claim. As for the rumour itself, it doesn't seem impossible to be true judging by the info we have. MS already presumably has at least 4 games in their launch line up (Halo:Infinite, The Ascent, The Medium, Scorn). Sony has 0.

In the end it will all come down to the games. MS has a lot more to prove than Sony and if they can't improve their quality output of exclusives, I honestly don't see how Series X will sell better than the Xone. We'll see what they have in the pipeline when they do their July 1st party conference, but if it's going to be small scale Xone games, with an "optimized for Series X" logo like their last showing, they're going to get the same lukewarm reaction. All Sony would have to do is show just 1 tech demo of something like HZD2 that looks truly next gen like the Unreal demo, and it'll be an uphill battle for MS. 

It's a pretty hot take, when I was just referring to the rumour which comes from the source with at least good credibility when it comes to leaks like this. But my question wasn't about the rumour itself. My question is that do you believe that PS5 flops if this rumour is true? You seem so obsessed with first party exclusives being the only factor in Xbox and Playstation console sales yet you can't explain how Nintendo consoles sales differ significantly from gen to gen despite Nintendo always making excellent first party exclusive games. WiiU had better exclusives than Xbox One, yet it sold only 1/4 of what Xbox One did. Xbox One had better or at least not worse first party than PS4 in 2013-2014, yet PS4 was outselling it 2:1.

Sony didn't have the PR nightmare that was RROD holding back the Playstation 4.
Sony didn't have a paid online service when the competition was free.
Sony didn't have the weaker hardware.

Lots of reasons why the Xbox One floundered and never managed to gain traction... And it was entirely Microsoft's fault.

Halo, Gears, Forza and Fable probably all helped to lift the Xbox 360 up.

Pure speculation, but many people think Sony is holding their cards so closely right now because they smell a train wreck and want to have a full spin-train ready when we finally get all of the details. They are already saying things like "let the sales speak for themselves", perhaps acknowledging that they've been outplayed in other ways.

Shikamaru said it very well. Just because Halo is in decline doesn’t mean it’s still not a huge franchise. Halo 4 and 5 have great metascores. I really wouldn’t talk dismissively about Halo as Halo 5 was only on one platform and to this day has a healthy multiplayer community.  Halo Infinite will be on 3 platforms, will have heavy marketing condensed in the final months of the year, limited edition bundle, and boosted with Game Pass. It’s gonna pull amazing numbers that, if played right will reach more people then even Halo 3. With 5 years, it’s really hard to rush and mess up the game. 

To be clear my stance is that next gen launch exclusives don’t score well. Forza 5 is a worst reviewed entry so it’s not just PS examples. Cross gen launch titles tend to score higher historically. I’d say saving Halo Infinite for the launch breaks tradition because they need to start on the right foot this time more then ever.