So your definition of competitive is being at 50%? Let me put it another way. In a race where there are 100 competitors you are saying that the person who comes 50th is putting the person who comes 1st under pressure and is a serious contender in that race?? Meaning they 50th person could have someone won the race??

I think our definitions of competitiveness differ. Now if Xbox One sales were within 1% of PS4 sales, then I'd 100% agree with you, but in which reality is 50% competitive?? Is this some kind of new "alternative facts"/Trump definition of competitive?

By definition competitive means you actually have a shot at taking the number 1 spot. As mentioned above, if you are within 1-5% of the leader. Short of Sony folding as a company this year, how will Microsoft reach the number 1 spot this console gen? I'm open to any suggestion you have on how they could do that. Bizarrely your username signature doesn't even predict MS coming anywhere close to Sony by the end of this year.

Last gen, Microsoft allowed Sony to snatch victory, but at the end of the gen, there was only 1 or 2 million consoles difference. That was Microsoft being competitive. This gen, they are soooooo far behind I personally can't see it happening and on top of that they aren't currently doing anything that would somehow change their long term fortunes.

But the thing is that the switch sold that cuz it was all that was produced, would there be ore switches, it could have done some damage. The switch has games to look forward to this year which excite gamers, the switch is a different playing experience. So a bunch of things ps4 does not have or cant do. So they can be competitive by offering different things and different ways to play. The xbox is a carbon copy of the ps4, but the ps4 has a huge list of games not playable elsewhere, and not just quantity but better quality than the xbox. The only benefit of the xbox is that the x is a bit stronger than the pro, but more expensive. Its a no brainer that the ps4 has no competition from the xbox. it will show in sales next year, as the xbox has peak in 2017 while the ps4 will probably e up in 2018. 

Both consoles have pretty much the same single user base at least active single user base which buys games. On this site there is a hardware total page which show software attach ratio and it is almost equal for bit Xbox One and PS4.

Where do you get the numbers for 11/24 - 12/24 for the Xbox One X sales and the PSVR sales? Sources?

I cant say I know that to coment, you would have to show me that chart for me to comment.

It is a few weeks older than what is present on the front page but still you can get the picture.

It is a few weeks older than what is present on the front page but still you can get the picture.

More than twice as large user base. Quite a bit more than twice the amount of games sold, going by VGC total numbers. Going by weekly sales of games on here most games sell at a 2:1 ratio, some even 3 or 4:1, extremes like FFXV even had a 8:1 ratio.

Btw here’s a link from Metacritic showing the numbers of exclusives over 75 last year.

PS4 = 20

NSW = 13

XB1 = 1

That’s what means not being competitive.

http://www.metacritic.com/feature/best-video-games-of-2017?ref=hp

More than twice as large user base. Quite a bit more than twice the amount of games sold, going by VGC total numbers. Going by weekly sales of games on here most games sell at a 2:1 ratio, some even 3 or 4:1, extremes like FFXV even had a 8:1 ratio.

Btw here’s a link from Metacritic showing the numbers of exclusives over 75 last year.

PS4 = 20

NSW = 13

XB1 = 1

That’s what means not being competitive.

http://www.metacritic.com/feature/best-video-games-of-2017?ref=hp

Of course this number will be low because all MS games are on PC as well right now. So the games like Cuphead, Forza 7, etc doesn't count. I think the more interesting fact that only Nintendo made it to 90+ club this year and with 4 games while MS and Sony couldn't release at least one 90+ game.