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WagnerPaiva on 09 November 2013

Man, MS got the US by its balls, the One will sell just fine. Sony, however, will SLAUGHTER MS in Japan and win for sure in Europe.
Latin America belongs to MS due to the high PS4 price here, but, overall, I think both companies will make very healthy profits.



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platformmaster918 on 09 November 2013
Imaginedvl said:
fatslob-:O said:
Microsoft did mess up. Most of their audience came from how sony failed with the PS3. Now that it's sony with the cheaper price point I fully expect the upcoming generation to be alot like the 6th generation.

lol are you mad ahaha

"MOST of their audience came from how Sony failed with the PS3..."

Seriously, you guys should take a break :)

less expensive, a YEAR early (1 and 1/2 in Europe), and easier to program for along with Sony first party not being ready in the first year made a SIGNIFICANT part of MS's gain this gen.  Hell even Wii helped get mindshare off of PS3 and drown it out.  Sony effectively gave MS a 2 year headstart and has been more expensive the whole gen.  Not to mention RROD adding to 360's install base.  The previous gen we saw Sony with year head start and the same price as MS and how did it turn out?  Sony dominated.  MS meanwhile has fallen behind and is losing ground.  Now we have a new situation with no one having the head start and PS being less expensive.




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allblue on 09 November 2013

No, they tried to take ownership away from physical media. The digital management should be a choice and it wasn't.



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gooch_destroyer on 09 November 2013

Nah..MS knew what they were doing.



riecsou on 09 November 2013
The Fury said:

They deserve it, yes. They called us thieves. But MS have done well since to change their way, changing policies, being more coherant and putting their view across. Before the changes it was a bit of a mess. Sony did well because it didn't try anything special, it's new features, at the cost of, well, cost to us was seen as less 'brutal' because not only had MS charged for a similar for the last 10 years but becuase of MS's own issues hiding it. I hope the Xbone does well, like I hope the industry does well.

riecsou said:

and Sony is known to have expensive console at release.

It is? 1 home console more expensive than it's competitors even though others it made were same or cheaper and it gets a reputation.  :P


PS1 launch price: $300, N64 launch Price: $199---------- Game Cube $199, PS2 $299. So yes, they usually get more expensive launch price



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The Fury on 09 November 2013
riecsou said:

PS1 launch price: $300, N64 launch Price: $199---------- Game Cube $199, PS2 $299. So yes, they usually get more expensive launch price

N64 and Gamecube were not Playstations only competitor. Infact, what you should say is that Nintendo have great prices, not that Sony is expensive.



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Sensei on 09 November 2013

Of course they messed up. PR shitstorm, weak console, terrible name, etc.

I won't soon forget the DRM always online debacle (neither a lot of people). MS simply lost a lot of consumer trust. To think we were baking on Sony following them on the DRM bullshit. LOL, Sony completely destroyed MS and made them look like idiots.

Can MS recover? Of course they can, and they are already recovering with better PR and good showing of games. They are putting effort, but it's not that easy.



ratchet426 on 10 November 2013
jlmurph2 said:
Honestly MS E3 was excellent. People kept hounding them to show games and that's exactly what they did.


Yeah they "showed" games - games that were running on PC's with higher end graphics card than is in their console. Not exactly a fair showing of content, imho.

Other than quantity of PC-powered games, the MS E3 showing was an unmitigated disaster. They were practically booed off stage for their DRM crap, then followed it up with arrogant interviews with E3 press trying to defend their wildly unpopular polices (i.e. If you don't want to be connected to the Internet all the time buy a 360, and "we can't just flip a switch" and turn off DRM, etc) And to add the ultimate kick in the nutz, Sony finishes them off by announcing a price $100 less than MS's console, and b*tch slaps them with reminders that the PS4 won't force you to check in every 24hrs or limit your ability to buy/trade used games. 

So with all due respect I beg to differ with your use of the word "excellent" to describe Microsoft's E3 showing.