[Max Cow Disease]

It's going to be an interesting generation, as MS is taking a far more unconventional approach this time around. I think it would be an error to try and predict what will happen this time upon the basis of old traditions in the console industry like "whoever has the best/most exclusives will win". I have no doubt that PS5 will be the higher selling piece of hardware (partially due to inertia carried over from the mistakes made in 2013's Xbox One launch), but MS does have some promising exclusives in the hopper, and if they market their services hard enough, I could see it being appealing to a lot of people. The exclusives they have now are already pretty good (Gears 5, Forza, Sea of Thieves, Halo, etc.), so it's enticing that there are more coming, and that you pay nothing for them at launch if you're subscribed to Game Pass.

I personally am in the segment who doesn't have a PC but likes reasonably high-fidelity gaming, so the Series X is a definite buy for me. Somebody mentioned it earlier but they've effectively covered a pretty wide swath of the gaming population with their strategy here, so it will be interesting to see how it plays out. I love games like Last of Us, God of War, and Horizon and will undoubtedly get a PS5 to play them, but the vast majority of time spent in a gaming generation is spent not playing those games for a lot of people, and MS has created a pretty appealing value proposition as to why you should consider spending some of that time in their ecosystem.