Xbox 720 Might Lack A Years Advantage

[Legend11]

JoeTheBro said:

Legend11 said:

JoeTheBro said:
I can only laugh at people thinking next gen is already decided. Brand loyalty is much weaker than you guys think. Sony was king yet clever marketing and business strategies allowed both the Wii and 360 to beat them, at least at launch. In two years time Xbox8 could be the hot product or the joke machine. A year advantage would have allowed Microsoft to create their own image.

The PS2 never had an online community like Xbox Live that many people have a lot invested in.  The next Xbox is going to be backwards compatible if the rumors are true and we know that it will have a lot of third party support so it's hard to imagine it not attracting current 360 owners.

Same with the PS2 to PS3, at least before the 360 came out. People think Live will keep people on XBOX but it wont. People buy multiplats on xbox to play with their friends. That's about as strong as their loyalty goes. They won't however buy a worse system especially when their friends aren't already upgraded.

If you look at the last 3 generations it was the least powerful console that won, why do you think that is going to change now?  Do you feel that Sony for example is in a better financial position now than when the PS3 launched and will be willing to take the same financial losses they did with PS3?  Please explain why they cut over half the Playstation PR team and over 10,000 employees if that is the case.  Also explain why their recent hardware launches (Go, Vita, Wonderbook, Move) have been either outright flops or lost to the competition.  Isn't Vita more powerful than 3DS?