What happens to the PS brand if the big 3 repeat their action next gen?

[Kenryoku_Maxis]

Mr Puggsly said:

Kenryoku_Maxis said:

Well, I'd argue that MS isn't making a massive change to the Casual market.  They've spend like $300 million on JUST advertising the Kinect, a peripheral to their core system.  And for about 2 years now, all the major XBOX commercials, aside from Halo Reach, have focused on things like LEGO Batman and the Kinect games.  This is a massive switch to the first XBOX and even the first 3 years of the XBOX360 where Microsoft was focusing almost exclusively on 'hardcore M rated games'.

PS3 is also seeingt an upswing of sales after MS switched to the casual market and they started focusing on the 'core' audience with advertisements for 'core' games.  Where this strategy failed at the launch of the PS3 because XBOX360 had such a strong start, Sony is doing well with it now because XBOX isn't focusing on that market anymore.

We don't know if that $300 million was just for Kinect, it could have been all of MS advertising. They were marketing like crazy in 2010. I mean between the 360, Kinect, Fable 3, Reach, Windows 7, Cloud, W7 Phone, etc... you couldn't turn on the TV without seeing MS products.

Also, they weren't just advertising Kinect. The 360 was rebranded last year and it had its best sales ever.

I'm confused about the Xbox commercials thing you said. In past couple years they marketed Fable 3, ODST, Reach, Crackdown 2, Forza 3, and had exclusive advertising on CoD games, FFXIII, and I'm sure there are others. I don't know if MS ever JUST focused on M rated games, but that seems like stupid strategy to me.

PS3 sales saw an up swing because its finally become affordable over the years. Playstation 3 had the hype to be a success but it was too damn expensive. The 360 thrived off that and took a lot of Playstation fans along the way.

Well, I can only speak from my experience and that of others, including on this forum.  But from what I've seen and heard, nearly all of MS advertising last year was focused on Kinect.  Heck, its still their major focus.  And like I said, aside from Halo Reach, I never saw any other MS commercials in the last year...except Kinect stuff.

If you were able to notice more, than perhaps I'm wrong.  But from my perspective (and many others), it seems like Microsoft is just KINECT KINECT KINECT.

Also, I don't have a source, but my '$300 million advertising' figure was said to be just for the Kinect.  And I'm sure at this E3, MS will once again focus like 3/4 its show on the device.