Xbox One X is here, should Sony be worried about PS4?

Console Wars!
Everybody knows about the disastrous Xbox one launch & Microsoft has got a lot of bad rep for all the mistakes it made back then. Now the unusual mid generation console upgrades are here for the first time. Tables are seemingly turned this time around as Sony is the one whose PlayStation Pro has come under some criticism for not packing enough punch in its hood, while Xbox One X now looks as if it has made all the right moves and is definitely a lot more powerful & capable than Pro.
Will it actually matter now? Is it actually gonna help make Xbox get back up & compete with Sony at the top, or is it bound to be a case of too little too late for the American Giant. I think it might me the later & Sony does not have much to worry about & was actually right to have not upgraded their original model extensively.
Here are the reasons Sony doesn't have to worry about Xbox One X:

The Price: Xbox One X is priced $500 while PlayStation Pro is $100 cheaper. Not to mention that by the time Xbox One X comes out PlayStation Pro will have multiple bundles available with games, cameras, and additional controllers that will be way cheaper and provide a lot of more value for money than the upcoming Xbox. The same thing happened with the original Xbox One when it was bundle with the Kinect & priced $100 more than the PS4. As a result of the 100$ price difference(atleast in part) PS4 launched way better than Xbox. Same thing might repeat this time around.
The Games:  PlayStation has hands down a lot & I mean a lot of great Exclusive games & across all the genres. The list of brilliant game only available on PlayStation to name a few include Bloodborne, Uncharted, Infamous, Gravity Rush, DriveClub, Ratchet & Clank, Heavy Rain, & God of  War. Xbox meanwhile have to time & again look at the Halo series, Gears of war, & Forza as their big guns who are all brilliant but are simply not enough on their own. The Xbox simply does not have enough exclusive games and the exclusives that it has are generally shared by the PC while the Sony PlayStation has countless great exclusives available & their upcoming slate the includes the God of War 4 looks incredible. Sony's collaboration with the indie developers also gives them an advantage in the games department over Xbox.
VR: well while VR was initially feared to be a gimmick much like 3D initially it has since shown real potential and is here to stay. While Sony has become the market leader in VR, Xbox is not even in the game so in the future whatever Xbox One X has in extra power it cannot use to provide the VR experience that Sony can. Unless Xbox as a major surprise for us in store we can expect Sony to have a healthy advantage over its American rival due to VR.
Next Generation: launching one year after the Pro does not only mean that the Xbox One X has lost 1 years sales to the Pro, it also means that it has one year less until the next generation comes around and that is widely widely expected to be in 3 years that is 2020 and if that is the case then Sony will announce it in 2019 and at that time the ball will again be in Sony's Court. This effectively gives the X just 2 years to get Microsoft back on track.
Useless Potential: Microsoft continuously reminds us that Xbox One X is the most powerful console, but will that power be truly useful when all the games made for the X have to be playable on the original Xbox One also. This is where I think Sony played smart as even if it gave the Pro alot of additional power all its games are still to be compatible with the original PS4 so that will ultimately be a waste. Therefore their decision to make Pro just 4K compatible, with a updated hard disk, & just enough powerboost that it can handle the load of updated 4K visuals and give better overall performance to current games without going all out is a wise move.

These are the reasons that make me believe that Xbox One X is just too little too late for Microsoft & Sony need not worry too much about its rival's mid-generation console update.

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