Is this a meme? Should it be?
The meme starts with, "Sony just shot themselves in the foot.."
I will put in better context.
Ms is doing great moves. The smart delivery is something special. Really possible because of gamepass since your librar will carry to next gen.
I don't know how Sony will react but what they expect? To sell last of us 2 again for who bought on ps4?
I always thought the next gen would have a lot upgrade patches monetized . Ms move changes that and make it easy for people to join next gen. Imagine if u can carry your library by the cost of only change the he and receiving free updates.
And there is price. Ms has the opportunity to be really aggressive with price and they can afford to be. I don't know if Sony can get on this battle and take big loses on hw.
I think this is good example of recency bias occluding the simple reality that when Sony do their marketing, it'll result in the same if not greater number of eye balls (judging from the no. of likes the PS5 logo received in Insta) and all console related conversations converging on to PS5's specs, features and how it compares to what is known of X.
PS is a powerhouse brand and the road to next gen is long and yet minuscule compared to the road that will be the next gen of software, features and install base.
Both companies have their roadmaps and neither one wants to look reactionary. These current thrills will abate as part of the news cycle with relevant parties will take their pound of flesh to talk about HW feature and how it relates to their games (devs) and their content generation (YTubers) etc.
All in all, current frustrations of Sony keeping quiet for some folks will have little to no consequence for actual buyers once the product hits the market.