| Avro1958 said: I don't know if Sony's turnaround happened soley because of the PS4, I think it started to turn around 2 years prior. There was a pretty big sales gap between the 360 and PS3 and that's when Sony started to close the gap and eventrually take the lead in overall sales.
Sony took this time to build up it's first party IP since they were bleeding 3rd party exclusives this really set the stage for success. The turnaround happend around Uncharted 3, could have been sooner but for me this time feels about right, maybe it feels that way because this is when I had a bunch of former Xbox friends migrate over to the PS3 and have stayed with the platmorm since. So I think things were trending that way and then Microsofts mishandling of the XB1 launch really snowballed it. With MS's somewhat failure this gen, I don't see them doing what Sony did and shore up it's 1st party lineup. MS is very weak in this area. You have Forza, Gears and Halo as it's heavy hitters and then a HUGE drop off. There are some good games in there but nothing that really has system seller numbers. Now the new IP that is on its way can be had on the PC with no need for a Live membership or a console... I am sure some will say how Sony plans to bring PS4 game support to PSNow, but those are not going to be new games, buy the time they hit the service they would have already made there money.
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The turnaround happened in 2008-2009. Analysts were projecting due to Sonys noted wider mass appeal that the PS3 would overtake the XBox 360 by 2011 if prices were dropped and gamers were delivered as usual. Microsoft naturally cannot deliver what Sony does.
