The Pro was leaked back in February or something. It definitely didn't come out of nowhere. Sony was supposed to officially announce it at E3 but tucked their tail when they found out Microsoft was going to announce the much more powerful Scorpio. All people would've talked about was how weak the Pro would be if they had announced it when they originally planned. PS will put something out more powerful than the Scorpio in two or three years, and then Microsoft will do the same. Traditional console generations are dead. Now that the console architecture is so similar to PC, it's much easier and cheaper to do so. Also, neither Microsoft nor Sony are going anywhere unless someone new enters the console market and edges them out. There's plenty of room for the big two. And Microsoft absolutely needs the Xbox. There's more money in it than just the face value console sales. It's used as a platform to supplement Windows 10 and push the Microsoft brand. In a market that's seeing people leave Windows for OSX and Linux in droves, the Xbox brand is huge for maintaining the Microsoft status quo as the quintessential software provider. tl;dr Nothing you said makes much sense at all in reality.