Perfect! I'm already gonna be overwhelmed with games at PS5/XSX launch. this will be good for the game, and good for gamers! 

Right! I forgot they weren't both released the same year. 

Damn, even with an extra year and Sony having a disastrous start, Xbox couldn't catch a break. 

Puts things into perspective, doesn't it?

The only region the Xbox has a fighting chance is NA. As it stands, PS4 has sold around 38M consoles there to the Xbox's around 31M. But the real point here is that that only accounts for 33% of the PS4 total sales and a whopping ~64% of the Xbox sales. 

The 7th gen has given a lot of people a lot of false hope or ideas. It blinded them to just how lopsided this fight between the PS and Xbox truly is. It simply does not matter what Xbox does, short of selling the 12TF XBSX for like $299, even then they would need the PS5 to be priced at $499/$599 to generate any kinda traction. Basically, this isn't and has never been a fair fight, MS needs sony to properly fuck up out the gate to make this remotely fair.

Power, game pass, all-access...etc, these are all cards MS has played before, multiple times. It has never made a difference. The only thing that could, is if MS literally goes out there and builds a library of stellar must-have exclusives, and while they are at it, secure major third-party exclusives too. I am talking things like Cyberpunk, Call of Duty, GTA6...etc. All while being cheaper. Thats exactly what Sony did with the PS1 to dethrone Nintendo and Sega.

Sure. but not everyone is a CoD/GTA player. Some people just wanna play great games and not pay $500 for a system. For those people it's XSS or Switch to play games for the next few years, and between those two, with the Switch you get the full system while XSS you get a hamstringed system where you probably have to pay an extra $200 for storage anyways, or constantly delete games you've already played because you only get 512 gigs of storage and most games are probably 50-100gb or more.

I wasn't saying price is all that matters. But the entire point of the XSS existing is to have a low price, so in this case yes price is very important. So anyone considering it is doing so for the price, and between the two cheap systems I would think most people would chose a Switch, unless of course you're essentially CoD focused gamer (meaning you basically just wanna buy action games and shooters, or sports games). If price isn't a concern and this hypothetical gamer doesn't want a Switch then XSS wouldn't even be in the conversation.

Cheaper is always great. However, its relative. And that the point I have been trying to make with regards to the price. If you read this thread, from some it comes off sounding like the cheaper console will always win or will make a meaningful difference, or is the ace in the hole MS has always needed. When in truth, nothing as far as the fight between the PS and Xbox would suggest that.

I am not saying that a cheaper xbox wouldn't accelerate Xbox sales or help some, I am saying that it would not affect the PS5 in any way. And why I think that; at a time when there was a $200 price difference between the PS3 and 360, when games were running better on the 360, when the 360 had a far better gaming library than it does today in comparison to the PS, when the 360 had been out for a whole year before the PS3, the PS3 still managed to outsell it globally for all but one year.

Now, we are talking about a $100 difference not just between a PS and Xbox console, but between a far more powerful PS to Xbox console. They are both all-digital consoles, it's actually super easy to upsell someone on a PS5D from an XBSS when you start listing out all that you get for just a $100 more.

Point is, that $100 isn't gonna be enough. If however, the PS5D is $150/$200 more expensive than a XBSS, then that is a totally different matter. I say this because you said some people just wanna play a great game and not pay $500 for a system. Asifboth PS5 SKUs are going to be $500.I can almost guarantee this, at least one of the two PS5 SKUs will be $399. That's just $100 more than the XBSS. 

I hope for MS sake, that $399 isn't the price of the most expensive PS5.

Is this why the PS4 continues to outsell the Xbox One?  Or is it the remaining "5 percent" of Sony exclusives?  Those must be some DAMN fine exclusives.

I'm thinking of buying both digital consoles.

Possible but unlikely. I feel that by now most people who buy consoles have settled on their preferred one and like that particular ecosystem. As a result, I think most will be unlikely to switch brands, especially when all of the 3 brands are branching off in very different directions. Based on this, i expect the gap between the ps5 and series X to close but still be in the ps5's favour.

Well...yeah. Yeh they are. PS and Nintendo exclusives are regularly outstanding (with a few duds.) Xbox exclusives as of late are few and far between, and the good ones (Mostly Forza, lets be honest) are the exceptions, not the rule. 

And i have a problem with trusting Microsoft on speedy development in their studios when the most interesting titles for AAA games(for me) have no gameplay shown,like yes it is great Fable will be back but when,end next gen with some misfortune?

Obsidians Elder scrolls-like game is another one, a giant task that can take many years.

I'm also interested in Senuas sacrifice 2 but again we just have a fancy movie shown as trailer.

Again i plan on playing on all 4 platforms next gen but very curious how long it takes for Microsoft to give me enough incentive to buy their console, i like what they will have but have no idea when.