Not really double standard. It is just that Indie aren't really pushing HW sales. Reason why the Series X event was underwhelming, no really big game over there.

You don't need to be a PC gamer to be able to play Cuphead and Ori on PC, because that is the point on mentioning potato PC, it would run fine even on a non-dedicated PC.

Honestly, one thing I've learned in the past 4 PS generations is that you really shouldn't ever judge a game's library by its first year. Even the Ps4 was pretty bland and empty and devoid of high quality games until 2015/2016 and it ended up being one of my three favourite consoles of all time! History suggests that Sony paces themselves and most of the best games on their system will come out in the mid-late generation. 

That's the narrative I've been trying to push here. Even when Sony looks like they're failing, they always end up delivering in the end. PS3 and Ps4 (the most recent and therefore most historically relevant comparisons) both had slow starts but ended up getting waves upon waves of quality while both the Xbox 360 and Xbox One had good to great starts only to sputter out in the latter half of their life cycles. Microsoft lost a LOT of headway against PS3 due to the shift in quality exclusives in 2010-2013, and while the Xbox One never had a truly impressive first party line up, the last few years of the Xbox One's life was anemic. 

I used to make charts showing all the exclusives of an 80+ Metacritic any given year, and ever since 2015, Xbox has only ever had a handful of them while the list is almost entirely dominated by PS4 and WiiU/Switch titles (Once the Switch came out in 2017, it's been pretty close). 

I'd love to show some of those results but Gamerankings.com is no longer a thing so i'd have to recreate what I found. The point is, when comparing the late-stage exclusives of Xbox and Playstation Brands, Playstation always comes out on top due to, you know, a more balanced release schedule. People keep arguing with me, but they're just wrong. The console sales, the release schedules, and the general opinion of the masses are all in agreement here with the only holdouts/exceptions being diehard fans who won't accept the 'loss' (I don't really consider it a loss, since this isn't a console war anymore and I think the very idea of taking sides is dumb. However, the only reason I can imagine people are so eager to disregard the very real history of what has happened over the last decade is becuase they don't like the idea of their side 'losing'). 

Actually, gimme some time, I'll get some numbers and see if I can convey that here to show just how anemic Xbox One's latter half has been. Data from 2017, 2018, and 2019 will be shared, since GameRankings went down in 2019 and I'm still learning the inferior Metacritic rankings.

I made you a Venn diagram of people that think review aggregate scores are meaningless, and people that think lifetime console sales numbers are meaningless. 

More and better exclusives? MS has adquire studios for years now and all only mini games have releases aside for the big 3. People keep saying just wait for years. Nothing points to them outputing quality games just more quantity. I think after the July event is the last time they can say lets wait.

Gamepass is not a bad offer. But also indicates that they are uneilling to offer quality games. If they do it will be like one a year and a bunch of Indy games or it just would not be worth it.

Similar prices could help.

Being weaker is not an issue. Being weaker and more expensive was the issue with the x1. The same reason the x1x dint take off. Its definetly stronger than the pro but it was also pricier. It also lacks games.

Better marketing? Sounds like a preference thing. If you like what they Re showing your gona think its better. Just look at the reception the small anouncememts from Sony get. They drown out any positivity MS message may have. 

I think you misqoted me as it seems we are under agreement here. 

343i have the freedom to love halo or get the fuck out. I love that freedom.

So 343i was made for halo and turn 10 was made for forza and the coalition gears, but playground is special? 

I'm 100% sure that project Mara was ninja theory idea. They dont even have a script yet its just a concept so far. Im pretty sure they wanted to work on that game. Hellblade was probably on the backburner as the next big project. That was probably some deal they made. 

I'm sure all those other devs have the freedom to do what they want. As soon as they hit a decent game. The cage will just drop around them. 

Yes, it was for Sales.

Yeah, i think is guaranteed PS5 will outsell xbox easily.
And MS knows that, and now doesnt care about console sales as it used to care.
They are going to sell subscription. Either gamepass or xCloud. A PC owner that plays MS games counts for them as much as a console owner. Same for a xCloud user on mobile. They are adapting.
Now, we that have to change our metrics, console marketshare doesnt mean the same as before.

As long as we don't go like some want, to compare Xbox Live gold+silver+pc+switch versus PS+ to claim a tie in marketshare.