Quote Originally Posted by CLW View Post
MS would have "stuck to their guns" if the writing wasn't on the wall and obvious to everyone but you that they were going to lose the console battle to Sony the only ? was by how much.


Based on what? Early order numbers? The PS4 is $100 less and the Xbox One was STILL selling out. We have absolutely no idea who would have won if Microsoft had kept their policies. I'm not going to have a hypothetical argument with you. Unfortunately, due to Microsoft's lack of a backbone, we'll never know who would have won that battle. Only someone wearing Sony or Microsoft goggles can declare "victory" before the systems have even launched. I'm not going to pretend to know how well each one would have done, but it wouldn't have been a massive difference either way. Microsoft has way too much of a stranglehold on America not to be a key player.

There will still be consoles, it'll just be based completely on digital distribution and the cloud. It wont be cloud exclusive because of the fact internet still probably wont be consistent and fast enough to stream full games, but I would be absolutely shocked if PS5 and Xbox whatever had physical drives, which means consumers better get ready for not being able to trade in games.