@Fist_of_Belial It is. But I'm saying there's moves being made that may well indeed change the game in the first place. Exclusives only make senses if indeed everyone is trying to be truly "Exclusives".

I.e.: "Come and get MY exclusives instead of this other guy?"

Meanwhile Microsoft is gravitating away from he Xbox subtly and it's crossplatform support is not a bad idea in the slightest. The Xbox might be a small console, but you're forgetting the sleeping giant a lot of folks are forgetting about: the PC. And that's one Microsoft had a strong link with well before the days of the Xbox.

In a way my point about the way this could hurt Sony doesn't involve the Xbox or the Switch. It's that by setting their sight on the PC and crossplatform support for stuff like multiplayer... Microsoft might be about to eventually enact a move that might well isolate Sony in the longterm.

With 80 millions consoles sold, it wouldn't have much effect immediately.... but when we reach a point where PC, Switch and maybe whatever console Microsoft releases(which might not be an Xbox anymore, though we'll see, but literally an unified "PC console" concept optimized for TV play but supporting PC games/multiplayer)… it might in the longterm very much leave Sony isolated and multiplayer game developers pressuring Sony to "open up" the console's multiplayer if people increasingly start skipping the PS4 version of games just to continue playing games on a console that can play on all the different hardware owned by their friends.

In a way, seeing the Xbox falter as it did has shown the weakness of the "exclusives only" philosophy and the fact Nintendo's own WiiU taught Nintendo a similar lesson may well have taken part of their reasoning that "perhaps the race for exclusives is a game better not played". If you're already winning, cool, but otherwise it's hard to reverse the steam.

So informally uniting to basically flip the tables on the whole concept of exclusivity might well be a good way of turning the entire game on Sony. I've already got friends who're interested in Monster Hunter World who don't know which version to buy -because- they want to play the game but not in a way that would isolate them from playing with their friend. So their hope is -literally- that the PC version see enough people migrating back to PC because they absolutely don't want to buy a PS4 just for a single game when already invested on PC.

And even without Steam... that's the big deal right now is that when it comes to crossplatform multiplayer, PC gaming IS kinda the sleeping giant in the room that a lot of people are forgetting about, and that's the one thing which might bite Sony in the rear if they're not careful about being too defensive of their multiplayer platform... 80 millions consoles sold or not. Because the potential of this is not in the short term, but very much in the long term.

If everyone else starts teaming up together informally, it can hurt you a lot to be the one stubbornly stuck in your own isolated corner.