But we're still getting a game riddled with micro transactions, just a worse one.

Hey, it can always get worse. Maybe this time they'll outdo themselves!

I'm just waiting for the inevitable "unbeatable graphic fidelity" and all of their glitching hilarity that comes with every new gen sports game.

Honestly, it is not that surprising. It is going to take an 16 Core/ 32 Thread Ryzen to keep up with the CPU and I/O needs of PS5/XBS games. Most people don't have a PCIe Gen 4 Mother Board, a 16 Core CPU, a 2.4GB/s or faster SSD, and an RTX2070 Super or better GPU (AMD doesn't even have a next gen capable card on the market right now).

There will be very few PCs in the wild that could even brute force their achieveing what PS5 and XBS will be doing, there are just too many special purpose optimizations in the consoles. It will take time for Devs to build work arounds, and/or PC Hardware Architecture changes, to bring these features to a more main stream PC audience, and not just the .05% with brand new 2020 Enthusiast Tier components.

The PC version will be built to the limitations of Intel CPUs, PCIe Gen 3, and HDDs.

^And then you wake up and realize that, thanks to the scalability of PCs, that won't be the case.

Per the rumors the Series S has a lot of tech that more than 99% of consumer PCs don't have right now. It has a Ryzen 8 Core/ 16Thread CPU and a Decicated I/O Block that is equivelent to 5 additional Ryzen Cores. It is also utilizing PCIe 4.0, and a much fatser SSD than the majority of people have in their PC.

I am not saying that the PC is not capable, it is just that it will require a lot of specialized work to brute force PC to the levels of even the Series S in CPU and I/O. Levels that are simply not possible on current PCs with Intel CPUs and Motherboards. It is too small of a market to build to at the moment. 

Series S will not hold back next gen if the rumors are true. It has the same CPU, I/O, and SSD as the Series X. The only difference is that the RAM, Memory Bandwidth, and GPU have been blanced for 1080/1440 as opposed to 4K. 

I was not trying to start any Console vs PC debate. I was simply offering a reason, based on the current landscape, as to why devs might not invest in bringing the Next Gen Optimized version to PC this year, and why it is not really an awkward situation. I know that you can buy a PC to outperform PS5/XBS, but right now the audience that has a PC that is even on par with the consoles is very tiny, and the users with something that can outperform them is an even smaller sliver.  

In the here and now, on a yearly sports title, it just doesn't make a whole lot of sense to build to hardware that very few people have, on a platform that in which your title already has a very low sales rate.