Rumor has it MS may be leaving the hardware market

[A Black Falcon]

Consoles do not "go away entirely" if the entire high-end console market is ceded to Sony.  That's not how it works at all.  That would just be a situation with a monopoly where one company controls the whole market and leeches off of all sales made there because of unlike the PC console marketplaces all pay the platform owner.  Monopolies never ever goes well.   Of course, I really dislike Sony as a videogame company, but monopolies are almost always bad.

So yeah, it's fantastic that Microsoft is not abandoning hardware.  Releasing their games on the other platforms while Sony and Nintendo do not release games on Xbox isn't great though, that's giving them the advantage for sure.  I know that MS said that they'd like to see Sony and MS games on Xbox but don't expect it, but yeah, I definitely don't expect it... but if it ever did happen Sony games on Xbox is certainly much more likely than Nintendo games anywhere not on a Nintendo platform, that's for sure.  Nintendo does not do that.