It’s a pretty horrible strategy because,

1) They dont even take into account third party releases. For example, releasing Gears 4 so close to the release date of BF1 did NOT do them any favors whatsoever. Sure i bought both but guess which game I played more? Gears 4 is probably having problems with player retention as a result as shown by The Coalition trying to make PC and console cross play for competitive mode. Another example would be Tomb Raider and we all know how that played out.

2) Lets’s just say we have the money to buy all those games MS decides to release almost at the same time…..where is the time to play them? You know how the saying goes….You got time but have no money…but when you have the money you got no time.

While sure I can put my fanboi hat on and say Sony just delay their games….at least it works out in the end because thought was put into thinking when best to release the title. I sure do hope Phil is trying to work on these issues.