With that said, they do seem to be making the right moves at the moment.
They have won me over 1,000%. To the point where I have purchased £104's worth of Xbox Live Gold today (covering 30 months plus 3 free months which you can get by allowing them to set up recurring payments every time you redeem a code, then immediately cancelling it and redeeming another code)... Then converted it all into Game Pass Ultimate for £1, which adds another month on top.
34 months of Xbox Live, plus Game Pass Ultimate (inc. PC games, Project xCloud etc.), which should cost £11 a month (or £374 total)...
...for £3.09 a month. Or, because you can share Gold with another console (and all your benefits)...
£1.55 a month each for the other half and I.
Not to mention the pre-order process being fair, sensible and as well-organised as it could possibly be (I didn't think I'd manage to get two)...
Not to mention being able to play all the old games I haven't finished yet from the last three generations of consoles...
Not to mention the hardware being the beefiest of the two consoles...
Not to mention the exclusives I'm looking forward to (superheroes and Japanese RPGs do nothing for me)...
Not to mention the acquisition of Zenimax and all the IPs contained under that roof...
Not to mention the build quality of the Xbox One X (which gave me no problems) versus the PS4 Pro (which I had to put headphones on to play, and even then I could still hear the fan)...
...and to top it off, the battery in my PS4 controller decided to stop working today. The third time that's happened to me in three years (and we all know how expensive controllers are). They're pieces of shit with no replaceable battery. It felt like fate.
Literally the only thing I'll miss about the PlayStation is Share Play, for playing single-player experiences (like FIFA's career mode) over the internet with my dad, who's in his 70s and needs all the help he can get to play games. Which is why I'll keep the old PlayStation, and just use it for that and nothing else.