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crissindahouse on 17 November 2011
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superchunk really forgets two things:

1. ps3 isn't way in front of the 360 in europe. sure it sells better but how much? if some company sells 10 million units of anything in one branch and the other one 15 million doesn't mean they are way ahead. this can be easily go otherwise one decade later. that's what my second point is

2. what i said yesterday playstation is a huge brand in europe it's almost bigger than the name sony itself. advertisements over one decade or even more now  in every champions league game and other huge sport events. the brand xbox was nothing in europe and this gen was the gen they got known here, not the first xbox. if i ask 100 people mid 40 i bet some still don't know what a xbox is and everyone knows the playstaion brand. that's important for gifts parents buy their childchren for example. it's very simple, the brand playstation can't grow anymore since playstation 2 in europe it's like coca cola everyone knows it and everyone calls it like that even if they talk about this kind of product in general.

the brand xbox has still plenty of room to grow and it will from year to year.

and then if the ps3 wouldn't have blu-ray and online gaming for free i bet it wouldn't sell better then in europe or only a small amount like 15% more or so which is nothing. if sony will take money for the ps4 online service like microsoft does their goes this advantage and if you look at how much sony lost i think they will do something like that. and if the ps4 won't have the blu-ray advantage because next xbox will have blu-ray as well or because everybody has a blu-ray player then this huge advantage isn't anymore as well.

personally i still think the ps4 will sell better than the next box in europe even with a earlier release of the next box but you really can't say that and for sure you can't say that one year will make the difference next generation between a huge advantage for ps4 (with simultaneous release) or only a small if next box comes out one year earlier.

the success of the ps2 is still in the heads and many people who only think about playstation if the think about buying a console but this won't be so much the case for the next gen i think. the horrible start of the 360 with the rrod didn't help a lot as well neither does the name microsoft help here. it's one of the most hated companies in europe because of some shitty windows systems but i feel like this hate is shrinking as well.