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Is it worth Sony taking an obvious loss in the games/exclusive department compared to Microsoft and saving the big guns for 2016?

The Xbone is clearly prepared to gain some marketshare this year with some pretty big games. While Sony has had a decent 2015 and will continue to do so; the "huge blockbuster" games just aren't there this holiday. Bloodborne was in March so you can't use that. 

Anyway. I guess we will see. 

Personally I think with a intelligently timed price cut, Sony will easily be able to match Microsoft if not outsell them besides not having the games advantage. 

Enough at least to tide them over until 2016's huge Ps4 games come out. 

Thoughts? Opinions? Favorite food?

3rd party BUNDLES MAN
THE BUNDLES ARE CRAZY MAN ps4 bundles are stacked battlefront , disney 3.0 , cod should be enough  and i am sure they have alot of crazy deals yet to be announced

plus MGS and mad max and destiney will do better on ps4 and leg it out a bit for the brand

Wasn't really refering to sales. But with a Halo/Forza coming out I don't really expect to compete solely on bundles. Even worldwide. At least PS4 won't outsell Xbone as much as it has been so far.

Microsoft gain marketshare? No chance, Sony will continue outselling it at least 2:1 until the end of the year.

MGS and bundles already do the trick in Europe. For the year 2016 PS4 is going to outsell everything. WW sales will be above MS for quite a time but perhaps Xone will win a few weeks and 3NPD's

All I can say is never underestimate the power of Metal Gear Solid, Call of Duty, and Star Wars.

Personally, I think the "Microsoft has an unbeatable fall line-up" is mostly just a slogan that Microsoft is espousing that Sony has made no effort to contradict, and has even supported with stupid PR statements.

Realistically, Tomb Raider is a timed exclusive, and while it will help move Xboxes, I am unsure how strongly in favor of Xbox the timed exclusivity will help it. It will definitely help Xbox, don't get me wrong, and I'm unsure how well known it will be that Rise of the Tomb Raider is timed.

Forza sells well, but it doesn't sell that well, and it's uncertain if its annual franchise-ization has led to series fatigue. The sales numbers indicate its possibility, but again, it's uncertain.

Fable Legends is on PC and free-to-play. I doubt it will move units.

As I see it, the core of Microsoft's line-up is Halo 5, through and through. Halo 5 will sell exceptionally well and move a ton of Xboxes, but there's uncertainty there, too. Halo 4 saw a huge drop-off in its online userbase after little more than a week. If the same thing happens to Halo 5, there could be trouble. I personally don't believe this is as likely to happen, because it seems apparent that 343 is making an extremely conscious effort to make Halo 5 extremely appealing, but it is still a risk.

The last thing I would mention is that it might be best to keep Xbox sales expectations in check. Last year, Microsoft managed to sell almost 75% of its annual units in the September to December months. It achieved this, at least heavily in part, due to its amazing sales during the holiday shopping season. But, whereas 500 dollars was considered the default price of an Xbox One for most of 2014, 350 dollars and a game is the default price for 2015. It would be difficult and highly costly to make a similarly incredible sale for 2015. Despite the appeal of Halo 5, I don't think it's likely we're going to see unbelievable sales percentage spikes for the Xbox One, outside of the week Halo 5 comes out.

Sony is well ahead on exclusives that's released already and scheduled to release this year so far. Where's the loss for sony? I'm sure sony will do a temporary price cut for the holidays and that will destroy the xbox one's sales.

When it comes to AAA exclusives, I'm pretty sure the rather bleak lineup for the rest of 2015 is because of bad planning and unexpected delays, (R&C and Uncharted 4 were delayed til next year.) not an intentional move to have a stacked 2016 lineup, so the question "Is it worth it for Sony?" Is kind of a pointless question because Sony didn't do it intentionally.

I think in the case of Sony games, unexpected delays are to be expected. :|

They should drop the price their cuh 1200 model should make them affordable at 350$